Three Indonesian fishing trawlers have been seized for illegal fishing in Thai waters after they were spotted off the Phuket coast at the weekend.

 

The Bangkok Post reports that the fishing boats were first spotted by a reconnaissance plane on Saturday, October 7. At the time, the vessels were fishing west of Phuket, according to Puchong Rodnikorn, deputy commander of the 3rd Naval Area.

 

On Sunday, HTMS Klaeng was dispatched to intercept the trawlers which were located nearly 80 nautical miles west of Cape Promthep. KM Rahmat Jaya had 12 crew members on board, KM Ikhlasbaru had 16, and the Kambiastar had 12 crew.

 

 

By Peter Roche

Caption: PHOTO: Facebook/เหยี่ยวข่าว ภูเก็ต Newshawk Phuket

 

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13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

On Sunday, HTMS Klaeng was dispatched to intercept the trawlers which were located nearly 80 nautical miles west of Cape Promthep. KM Rahmat Jaya had 12 crew members on board, KM Ikhlasbaru had 16, and the Kambiastar had 12 crew.

Sink em Danno... 

The pictured vessel does not look like a trawler......