Thailand's fishing compliance over 80% completed
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Thailand has taken actions on more than 80 per cent of the items required to ensure compliance to the European Union (EU) regulations on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), according to the Fisheries Department.

Waraporn Prompoj, the deputy director-general of the department, said that Thailand has been mainly amending the fishery law and related regulations, taking into account trade partners’ import regulations and conditions as well as traceability. Penalties are clearly defined, with greater severity to prevent repeat violations. The executive decree, supporting these changes, will be announced soon, she said.

All fishing boats will now be required to keep log books, to contain the information of each catch. The supervision would be extended to cover processing factories.

The official said the volume of marine lives caught by Thai fishing boats operating in the Gulf of Thailand is about 30 per cent above seafood production capacity, while the ratio in the Andaman Coast is about 10 per cent. This highlights the need to improve the marine resource management.

During May 1-August 31, the number of vessels reporting to the Port In Port Out units reached 5,211. As of September 8, the department is able to track 2,135 fishing boats through the fishing vessel monitoring system (VMS).

EU Maritime commission inspectors are reviewing the compliance progress this month. It earlier issued a yellow card to Thailand, with a threat to eventually ban imports from Thailand if no actions are taken.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/The-Nations-letter-to-NCPO-chief-30268819.html

-- The Nation 2015-09-15

IMO, the headline is quite misleading...the word "compliance", in this case simply means they have established new laws and regulations.....for the policies to actually be enacted by fishing industry, the authorities must police and enforce the new laws.....something thay have never been any good at in any field....and this fiasco is going to be no different.....a lot of smoke and noise which will likely fool no-one.

As is usual, the fishermen will complain of reduced catches, difficulty of abiding by the laws and continue to break the laws as always......then lobby the government and the government will relent.

Law Enforcement in Thailand? WHAT????? Now there's a new one. lol

LOS = Lack of Sanctions.

As an example. Ever wonder why the roads are so dangerous? No law enforcement. But we already know that.....

80% of all bribes have been paid, and the floating depots that take the catch from the boats and refuel them at sea are all now legally registered at other countries. Slaves at sea will remain at sea, lest they report the truth and cause the nation to lose face.

More BS, with a twist.

The EU will be looking for commitment to uphold the new laws.

The recent incident of an illegal foreign trawler with an illegal catch entering the South, unloading its catch, and leaving Thai waters UNCHALLENGED by the Thai Navy who was aware of its presence does not show the Prayut military government is not really serious about IUU.

What part of the word 'compliance' do they not get? The EU (or the US or the ICAO) have a set of rules ALL of which have to be met if you want to sell to them and/or fly internationally. To be '80% compliant' means that you are NOT compliant. Ban coming I would guess

The EU will be looking for commitment to uphold the new laws.

The recent incident of an illegal foreign trawler with an illegal catch entering the South, unloading its catch, and leaving Thai waters UNCHALLENGED by the Thai Navy who was aware of its presence does not show the Prayut military government is not really serious about IUU.

Perhaps someone can raise this while the good general is at the UN?

What I really want to know is are the boats (the 80%)now incompliance or does the paperwork

just indicate the boats are in compliance. After all Bernie Madoffs paperwork also indicated he

was in compliance.

Thailand's fishing compliance over 80% completed

Put another way..."Thailand fishing industry not yet compliant",

the key is the last 20% and the most difficult impossible) one to taggle, which is corruption.

The EU will be looking for commitment to uphold the new laws.

The recent incident of an illegal foreign trawler with an illegal catch entering the South, unloading its catch, and leaving Thai waters UNCHALLENGED by the Thai Navy who was aware of its presence does not show the Prayut military government is not really serious about IUU.

It's because they don't have submarines, obviously.