Thailand to provide EU with IUU updates regularly

 

BANGKOK, 21 November 2016 (NNT) - The Thai government is planning to send its committee on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing to the European Union to provide new development on the efforts to eradicate illegal fishing activities. 

Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Gen Chatchai Sarikulya invited the Ministry of Labour to provide updates to him on issues related to illegal migrants in the fishing industry and IUU fishing. Gen Chatchai said it was to get the committee ready to report to the EU regarding the progress on the matter. 

A sub-committee, which consists of representatives from the Fisheries Department, the Marine Department, and the Ministry of Labour, will travel to Brussels on November 22nd to meet with EU officials. 

The European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries (PECH) visited Thailand earlier this year to observe the country's efforts to handle IUU fishing. The Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister explained that it is the government’s strategy to report to the EU regularly in a bid to show the country’s serious commitment to fend off illegal fishing. 

He believes the move eventually persuade the EU to remove the yellow card from Thailand when the next assessment takes place in January next year. The Fisheries Department is currently undergoing organizational changes following its failure to remove the yellow card. 

89 laws related to fisheries have so far been legislated to ensure the sustainability of Thailand’s fishing industry and to tackle any illegal activities in the Thai waters.

 

-- nnt 2016-11-21

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

BANGKOK, 21 November 2016 (NNT) - The Thai government is planning to send its committee on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing to the European Union to provide new development on the efforts to eradicate illegal fishing activities

I bet the EU can't wait. Another committee to the already bureaucratic EU. More lunches and dining out. Who will be fitting for the bill I wonder?

Edited November 21, 20169 yr by Laughing Gravy

Thailand, the HUB of committees!

4 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:

I bet the EU can't wait. Another committee to the already bureaucratic EU. More lunches and dining out. Who will be fitting for the bill I wonder?

 

What the EU is trying to eradicate is human trafficking and labour exploitation in the Thai fishing industry. These two go hand-in-hand with unregulated fishing.

 

Without the current administration's cooperation Thailand would have faced a total ban on fish exports to the EU: https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/eu-extends-yellow-card-on-thai-fishing-exports/

 

 

57 minutes ago, Xircal said:

 

What the EU is trying to eradicate is human trafficking and labour exploitation in the Thai fishing industry. These two go hand-in-hand with unregulated fishing.

 

Without the current administration's cooperation Thailand would have faced a total ban on fish exports to the EU: https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/eu-extends-yellow-card-on-thai-fishing-exports/

 

 

Exactly.

And while they are at it will they also send a committee or a sub-committee or a sub-sub-committee to report on the overuse and abuse of antibiotics in the Thai aquaculture industry. The gravy train has no bounds when the military is in charge of the petty cash.

Yawn!