OPINION

Bolder efforts are needed to reel in destructive fishing

News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 24/05/2018

» A still whale shark dangled from a crane on a trawler floating offshore Phuket. Its tail was tied to a lifting machine with a rope. As a by-catch, the heavyweight whale was lifted up by the machine and placed on one side of the vessel's deck. Some crewmen then pushed its massive body into the water.