By Natthaphon  Sangpolsit

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Royal Thai Police have announced a national operation to inspect fishing vessels across the country, in an attempt to suppress illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Thailand.

 

The move follows a downgrade of the Kingdom’s status on the United States’ Trafficking in Persons report.

The inspection is being launched for some 10,000 commercial vessels, in collaboration with relevant agencies.

 

Police are also working with the Department of Fisheries, the Marine Department, the Department of Labor Protection and Welfare, and the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Center to establish a mutual guideline for fishing equipment inspection.

 

Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn, assistant commissioner-general of the Royal Thai Police, said the effort will help enhance tracing and monitoring systems in Thailand’s commercial fishing industry.

 

He also said the lack of such an industry-wide inspection over the past two years led to the downgrade of Thailand’s status on the Trafficking in Persons report to Tier 2 Watchlist, from the Tier 2 status previously.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2022-02-07

 

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always after the fact which is exactly what is wrong with this country, no need to expand that any further because everyone sees it day after day year after year

So who is responsible for maintaining surveillance and correcting wrongdoing? Where is the almighty jackboot of Prayuth when you need him!

I guess that the 'smart' BMW is not going to be much use then?

Perhaps, if the venerable police force had done their job and "mass inspected" fishing fleets BEFORE the status downgrade, there wouldn't have been a downgrade in the first place, making this sudden scrambling unnecessary. Just a thought.

27 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

I guess that the 'smart' BMW is not going to be much use then?

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7 hours ago, smedly said:

always after the fact which is exactly what is wrong with this country, no need to expand that any further because everyone sees it day after day year after year

Not uncommon, after the disaster in the UK with the flat where so many died all of a sudden there were checks everywhere. Same goes for my country after a gas boiler exploded all of a sudden checks were made in all places. Governments often react this way after a problem. 

 

Not an really Thai thing but a human thing. Just think of all those people starting to exercise after a heart attack. They did not do it before. Its human nature.

They had enough Policemen awake to create a 'Mass' ??

Captains feverishly removing planks, used to dispatch pesky slaves.