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Banchong opposes U-turn on seine nets
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/08/2025
» A leading marine conservationist is strongly opposed to a proposal to amend Section 69 of the Fisheries Act to allow seine nets with mesh sizes smaller than 2.5 centimetres to be used at night in combination with light attraction to catch fish.
Philippine marine life under threat from industrial fishing
Published on 06/06/2025
» MANILA - Impoverished fishing communities in the Philippines are caught in a David-and-Goliath fight with industrial fishing companies after the country's top court loosened restrictions on commercial operations in protected coastal waters.
Senate rejects use of fine mesh nets
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 28/02/2025
» The Senate voted to ban the use of all types of purse seine nets with meshes smaller than 2.5cm for night fishing, prompting the Lower House's fisheries bill to be sent back to MPs for reconsideration.
Vietnamese fishing vessel seized after collision with Thai boat
Online Reporters, Published on 26/02/2025
» A Vietnamese fishing vessel collided with a Thai naval patrol boat on Wednesday while authorities were attempting to apprehend it for illegal fishing in Thai waters off Trat province.
Stranded beluga whale removed from France's Seine river: AFP
AFP, Published on 10/08/2022
» SAINT-PIERRE-LA-GARENNE (FRANCE) - The beluga whale stranded in the river Seine in northern France was removed from the water early Wednesday in the first stage of an ambitious rescue operation, an AFP journalist said.
Spain, Germany cases rise; UK PM remains in ICU: Virus update
Published on 08/04/2020
» Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the start of a turnaround in the fight against the virus could come after this week.
Net closing in on seafood's future
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 25/02/2018
» Just last month I visited Wonnapa beach in Bang Saen, Chonburi. We drove past a seller who was busy arranging her freshly caught pu ma (blue crab). Priced at 150 baht per kg, it was cheaper than what you would see elsewhere. But these crabs are tiny and apparently not worth all the cleaning, cracking open and picking to get at the small amount of meat. Furthermore, buying them means you are supporting the fishermen to catch immature animals.
Thai Union signs fair labour pact
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 13/12/2016
» SET-listed Thai Union Group Plc (TU), the world's biggest producer of canned tuna, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the World Tuna Purse Seine Organisation (WTPO) to cooperate on ensuring fair labour practices.
Drought, fishing scandals and winding roads
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/12/2015
» In the past year, environmental disasters once again proved how much of an impact they have on everyone's lives: the air we breathe (the haze in the South, blown over from Indonesia); the water we use (the contentious Chao Phraya roads); the lights we see (the coal-fired power plants); the ground beneath our feet (the gold mining scandals); the food we eat (the fishery disputes). In all of this, local communities and the rural poor feel the heat and the fire more than Bangkok's urbanites and they're the people who keep showing public resistance against environmental problems and the depletion of natural resources, despite the grip of military rule.
Let them eat everything
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 04/12/2015
» There's no need to dress this up really. To get Sunday Brunch at La Vue, classic French restaurant, whose eponymous view turns downtown Bangkok back to front, just imagine that its iPad menu malfunctions to automatically order everything while only billing three courses.