Thailand hosts world tuna event

BANGKOK, 24 May 2016 (NNT) – Thailand collaborates with an international organization in arranging the “14th INFOFISH World Tuna Trade Conference and Exhibition: TUNA 2016 Bangkok” in an effort to show that Thailand is determined to combat the IUU fishing.

The Department of Fisheries, in collaboration with INFOFISH, the Thai Tuna Industry Association, the FAO as well as regional fishery and tuna organizations, is organizing the event where stakeholders in tuna industries worldwide meet.

It is a forum for them to exchange information about tuna situations in various regions and discuss the problem of IUU fishing.

Deputy Director-General of the Department of Fisheries Juadee Pongmaneerat has confirmed Thailand is doing its best in tackling the IUU fishing by passing new laws and enforcing them intensively.

Thailand recently acceded to the FAO Port State Measure Agreement (PSMA) which will be effective on 5 June 2016. The agreement will help Thailand eradicate the IUU fishing and promote the use of marine resources in a sustainable manner, said the deputy director-general.

-- NNT 2016-05-24

And of course everyone in the world knows what IUU fishing is, so no point in explaining it here.

And of course everyone in the world knows what IUU fishing is, so no point in explaining it here.

Google is your friend http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ia/iuu/iuu_overview.html but if you listen to any of the local news stations it pops up almost daily.

Intensive enforcement of laws. ?

That will be a first.

Discussions on the use of slave labour to optimize profits perhaps?

Anyway, everone knows that tuna comes in tins from Makro.

It is all a bit fishy if you ask me.

Keep eating Tuna its radiated its a migratory fish that swims of the waters near Fukushima .

Intensive enforcement of laws. ?

That will be a first.

I do not normally disagree with your posts NKK, but on this time you are, INHO, incorrect.

Not to rub salt into the wound I will add only 2 further words.......................The Lottery.

;-)

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Intensive enforcement of laws. ?

That will be a first.

I do not normally disagree with your posts NKK, but on this time you are, INHO, incorrect.

Not to rub salt into the wound I will add only 2 further words.......................The Lottery.

;-)

Bugger it Geordie, how could I possibly have overlooked the enforcement of such a major piece of legislation.

Wonder how the bike lanes are doing, completely free of motor cycles and vendors ?

Thailand needs to worry about all seafood stocks not just tuna, go too any market and you will find plenty of undersize crabs, and fish, it's a take everything attitude and the oceans are paying the price.

I have told my wife never ever buy any undersize seafood or I'll throw it out, and happily she complies and now so to has some of her family when they visit us.

And of course everyone in the world knows what IUU fishing is, so no point in explaining it here.

Yeah, it's the synonym for Thailand, the world knows.

Keep eating Tuna its radiated its a migratory fish that swims of the waters near Fukushima .

All of them????

I stopped eating tuna a few years ago. Indeed, I rarely eat seafood of any type. Seas everywhere are overfished and getting more polluted each day. I don't want to be a party to the destruction of the seas. 7 billion people, what a catastrophe for life on earth. with more than 2 new people every second. Imagine the Stones' song 'Satisfaction' playing non-stop 24/7, and each beat of the song, another baby gets born.

How long will the planet take to recover after our one destructive species is gonzoed? Not long, on a geologic scale, though by that time, half the species which exist today will be extinct. New ones will be created, but hopefully, not another species like us, which overpopulate and cause extreme harm to other species.

So, Boomer, what do you eat? Probably beef that is raised on a diet of plastic and foam? Or maybe your a viggen and just eat chemicals, with a bit of green coloring added?

It's very hard to find tuna that is not Thai owned. Go to any supermarket in the west: shelves stacked high with canned tuna, all Thai sourced. Increasingly salmon also.

i thought the tuna convention was held in

pattaya soi 6

This organization is always a day late and a dollar short. A waste of time.

Holding a convention is just a source of free money - FDI if you will. They don't actually have to achieve anything. do they even want to? Just seeming to do something is probably all they want.

Keep eating Tuna its radiated its a migratory fish that swims of the waters near Fukushima .

I have increased my intake of tuna - in the hope of gaining superpowers.

So, Boomer, what do you eat? Probably beef that is raised on a diet of plastic and foam? Or maybe your a viggen and just eat chemicals, with a bit of green coloring added?

I haven't eaten meat red meat since 1971. I eat some bacon about 1 day out of 80, but now am planning to quit pork also, after seeing a pig farm nearby where the sows are on their sides 24-7 in cages which touch their bodies, and can't move or stand on their own feet. They're just milk machines for piglets, until they (the sow) dies, and then they're carved up.

I eat mostly salads, some eggs, some chicken. I grow most of my own fruit and some nuts. I have the only grapefruit in Thailand. It's pink seedless Same for blackberries. Altogether, I grow about 16 types of fruit and 4 types of nuts. I avoid rice because it's pretty much nutritionless starch and likely has lots of chemi. I wish I could get hemp seed, as it's as nutritious as wild salmon (Omega oils!), but alas, it's illegal in Thailand, because of pressure from US's DEA.

Keep eating Tuna its radiated its a migratory fish that swims of the waters near Fukushima .

I have increased my intake of tuna - in the hope of gaining superpowers.

Then you're increasing heavy metals in your system. You can make jokes about it, but if you're watching out for any children, and allowing them to eat seafood (particularly shellfish or top-feeders like tuna) then you're also debilitating those peoples' health - due to metals intake and toxins. Such things add-up in a person's metabolism and can cause cancer, headaches and/or lessen mental abilities.

I had something else in mind...

One of my favorite movies...

Then you're increasing heavy metals in your system. You can make jokes about it, but if you're watching out for any children, and allowing them to eat seafood (particularly shellfish or top-feeders like tuna) then you're also debilitating those peoples' health - due to metals intake and toxins. Such things add-up in a person's metabolism and can cause cancer, headaches and/or lessen mental abilities.

Chicken making people sick due to becoming slowly immune to antibiotics due to growth boosting injections...

Vegetables making people sick due to high concentration of pesticides...

Seafood making people due to high metal...

What is left to eat?

Even puss ain't safe

Oh sorry, I thought this was another government sponsored beauty pageant with a terrible title, like Smart Lady.

Dammit, I read the headline and said "Alright, a tuna tournament, let's go!". I should have known, I've never heard of anyone catching big tuna off the coast of Thailand.

Keep eating Tuna its radiated its a migratory fish that swims of the waters near Fukushima .

All of them????

Yeah, Fukushima is the hub of tuna.

Keep eating Tuna its radiated its a migratory fish that swims of the waters near Fukushima .

All of them????

Both of them.

And of course everyone in the world knows what IUU fishing is, so no point in explaining it here.

ILLEGAL

UNREPORTED

UNREGULATED

I don't think many people realise how serious overfishing is...we'd fished out 90% of big fish stocks by 2003

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Only 10 percent of all large fish—both open ocean species including tuna, swordfish, marlin and the large groundfish such as cod, halibut, skates and flounder—are left in the sea, according to research published in today's issue of the scientific journal Nature.

Tuna - a very dirty industry.....

https://www.facebook.com/greenpeace.international/videos/10153878770828300/