Tag Archives: Thai fishing industry
EU pressure on illegal fishing threatens more than 8,000 Thai fishing boats
More than 8,000 trawlers in 22 provinces are likely to lose their commercial fishing licences after checks revealed the registration numbers did not match the vessels, and many had failed to renew their permits for years. If all the boats were banned, it would be a terrible blow to the Thai fishing industry, which employs about 300,000 people. The discrepancies were uncovered when the government began regulating all fishing boats to comply with the EU‘s demand last April that Thailand end illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, or lose its market for seafood products. Bangkok was given six months to fall into line. Read the rest here 12:09
National View: The high cost of cheap shrimp
The Guardian recently revealed shocking results from a six-month investigation of the Thai fishing industry: Much of the shrimp sold in American and British supermarkets were produced with slave labor. While shrimp sold to U.S. consumers hail from a number of different countries, including our own,,, Read more here 07:03
Thai fishing industry criticised for forced labour and violence – Why is our government allowing Thailand seafood to compete with ours?
Seventeen per cent of the mainly undocumented Myanmar and Cambodian fishermen surveyed were forced to work under threat of financial penalty, violence or denunciation to the authorities according to the UN agency. Max Tunon the ILO senior program officer says the study find serious abuses within the sector, “the vast majority of workers were in irregular status and thus more vulnerable to exploitation”. Thailand is the world’s third largest fish exporter by value, with sales worth around $7 billion a year. more@abcnetau 17:08
