Phang Nga tour company banned from Similans for 30 days

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Phang Nga tour company banned from Similans for 30 days
The Phuket News


The tourists refused to listen to the guide and insisted they wanted to dive and fish so were taken out of the park area. Photo: Phang Nga Marine Police

PHUKET: -- The Phang Nga based tour operator who is alleged to have allowed tourists to fish in a protected area of the Similan National Park has been given a 30-day ban from the area after failing to provide solid evidence to prove the exact location where the incident took place.

The tourists refused to listen to the guide and insisted they wanted to dive and fish so were taken out of the park area. Photo: Phang Nga Marine Police
Lt Col Chakri Maigumponsuth of the Phang Nga Marine Police and his team yesterday (Apr 4) escorted the boat captain, Mr Lahmarn Kuji and one crew member, Mr Weerapong Pethsiri, for questioning after they allegedly took Chinese mainland and Hong Kong tourists to fish in Similan National Park territory and demanded they provide the location where they stopped to fish.

Lt Col Chakri said, “Lahmarn said that the location where he took the tourists to fish was four nautical miles away from the Similan islands. He also said it was within his normal route and not in national park territory.

“However, officials noticed that the location given did not coincide with the AIS geo-location system report,” he said.

“Officers asked to check the boat’s AIS system, but Lahmarn said the AIS system was not set up to locate the boat when it stopped so it must not be working correctly. They also asked to look at CCTV footage from the boat,” he added.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phang-nga-tour-company-banned-from-similans-for-30-days-56913.php

-- Phuket News 2016-04-05

[craigt3365]

A ban of 1 year would be more appropriate. One month is nothing....

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Tourists’ Big Catch Gets Yacht Banned from Similans
By Teeranai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter


Tourists from Hong Kong display their haul of marine life near protected waters in Phang Nga province posted to social media and Pantip.

PHANG NGA — A tourist yacht has been banned from the pristine waters off Koh Similan for 30 days after its captain let a group of tourists to fish sea creatures without permission.

Although the fishing itself did not take place within the island’s protected national park area, the boat operator ran afoul of the law because it was not permitted to carry any fishing equipment at all, said Nat Kongkesorn, director of Similan National Park.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1459838586

-- Khaosod English 2016-04-05

[khwaibah]

Thailand just keeps bending over and says enter.

[Deli]

30 days at the end of the season is a a penalty ? How much was in the brown envelope ?

[stevenl]

A ban of 1 year would be more appropriate. One month is nothing....

Next week this boat is moving permanently to Indonesia, as planned for a long time already. They couldn't care less.

[stevenl]

30 days at the end of the season is a a penalty ? How much was in the brown envelope ?

Nothing.

[Redline]

Well that's a deterrent! Did they give him a little pat on the ass too?

[JulesMad]

Ban these f****ers for life, and stuff their catch (uncooked!) down their throats!!!

Yes, I know..... money talks and solves all problems :-(

[laolover88]

After so many years of starvation, the chinese just HUNGRY. Do wonder when xbillion people have eaten everything what they will eat/

[yogavnture]

only when every rhino and shark has been harvested so chinese men can have erections. will they be happy. chinese thugs

[tuanku]

Do we really believe there are not Thai fishermen also fishing these waters, especially as it was outside the NP? How do the seafood restaurants in Krabi and Phuket get their seafood? Just because the fishermen are Chinese and show off there is a huge reaction. The seas of Thailand are raped on a daily basis with unsustainable fishing. e- licenses will stop this?

[2fishin2]

Who cares so they took a few fish OUTSIDE THE PROTECTED AREA! And then they shared it with people. Want to complain about something? Complain about the mismanagement and practices of Thai fishing where drag nets are used to take every living creature they come across. Or better yet, complain about Thai boat fishing slaves. Lets not forget about the slaves the Thai fishing captains left and abandoned on the islands IN ANOTHER COUNTRY!

These few reef fish they took are NOTHING in comparison in the big picture of Thai fishing practices. Some of you people need to quit blabbing on topics you know nothing about....

[stevenl]

Who cares so they took a few fish OUTSIDE THE PROTECTED AREA! And then they shared it with people. Want to complain about something? Complain about the mismanagement and practices of Thai fishing where drag nets are used to take every living creature they come across. Or better yet, complain about Thai boat fishing slaves. Lets not forget about the slaves the Thai fishing captains left and abandoned on the islands IN ANOTHER COUNTRY!

These few reef fish they took are NOTHING in comparison in the big picture of Thai fishing practices. Some of you people need to quit blabbing on topics you know nothing about....

They were inside the national park

[2fishin2]

Who cares so they took a few fish OUTSIDE THE PROTECTED AREA! And then they shared it with people. Want to complain about something? Complain about the mismanagement and practices of Thai fishing where drag nets are used to take every living creature they come across. Or better yet, complain about Thai boat fishing slaves. Lets not forget about the slaves the Thai fishing captains left and abandoned on the islands IN ANOTHER COUNTRY!

These few reef fish they took are NOTHING in comparison in the big picture of Thai fishing practices. Some of you people need to quit blabbing on topics you know nothing about....

They were inside the national park

Huh? Did I miss that? If they were, I wouldnt support what they did except to say there are much bigger fish in the sea to worry about [emoji2]