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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.
Let's respect worker rights
News, Editorial, Published on 15/03/2018
» If there are any "achievements" the military government can claim and boast about for its performance during the past three years, its effort to clean up the country's fishing and seafood processing industries is one of them.
Over-fishing killing sea
News, Editorial, Published on 27/12/2017
» It is no longer a secret that the South China Sea is threatened -- not politically or militarily, but ecologically. More than half of the world's fishing trawlers operate in this sea. That threatens the collapse of the most productive source of seafood in our region, and the world. Scientists agree that the environmental disaster of over-fishing will destroy this fishing ground in the foreseeable future. No government or body of experts disputes this.
Private sector has ways to halt slavery
News, Published on 14/11/2016
» Human trafficking affects most parts of the world and impedes human development. According to the 2016 Slavery Index, some 46 million men, women and children are modern day slaves, with about half in Asia.
Land rights the key to forest conservation
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/03/2016
» Agro-giant CP has finally admitted to "being part" of deforestation in the mountainous North and has promised to stop buying corn grown in forest areas. So the forest should soon regain its health and the conglomerate will be off the hook, right? Not so fast.
Poor suffer as regime goes back to old ways
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 27/01/2016
» If you want to get Kanya Pankiti going, ask her about the coup-makers' self-proclaimed mission to return happiness to Thais. "Are you serious?" she asks. "What happiness? Can't you see people on the ground are suffering across the country?"
Heed worries of fishermen
News, Editorial, Published on 22/01/2016
» If the government wants to protect the ocean's ecosystems and ensure sustainable fisheries, it should heed demands from the fishermen's network to amend the Fisheries Emergency Decree.
Fishery action long overdue
News, Editorial, Published on 06/11/2015
» The government should be lauded for speeding up efforts to clean up the fishery sector. Comprehensive policies and measures to stop overfishing and the use of slave labour are long overdue. The challenges ahead lie in enforcement.
Too risky to use S44 for everything
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 02/11/2015
» The government seems not to be paying attention to this danger and is moving the country close to becoming comfortably addicted to the most powerful clause in the interim constitution -- Section 44. Cabinet ministers look to it as a cure-all which can fix every malady, from illegal trawlers to train construction.
Why reward the big fish?
News, Editorial, Published on 09/10/2015
» The government must answer many questions before it goes ahead with its plan to give millions of baht to help illegal trawlers who are the big fish in the industry while smaller operators suffer. These are the trawlers that opened the country to international condemnation for their destructive fishing methods and widespread use of slave labour.