Thailand calls on ASEAN to join in eradicating IUU
As Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2019, Thailand will mae eradicating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing a priority, said Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand Prawit Wongsuwon.
Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand Prawit Wongsuwon (Source: AFP/VNA)
Bangkok (VNA) – As Chair of the Association of Southeast AsianNations (ASEAN) in 2019, Thailand will make eradicating Illegal, Unreported andUnregulated (IUU) fishing a priority, said Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand PrawitWongsuwon.
According to Gen Prawit, one of the steps to be taken is setting up an ASEANregional mechanism to suppress IUU and share related information.
Thailand will encourage ASEAN members to adopt the Port State MeasuresAgreement (PSMA) to eradicate illegal trawlers, he said.
These remarks were quoted by The Bangkok Post, when Prawit addressed a forum onIUU fishing on June 5, calling on the United Nations to make IUU fishing anenvironmental crime.
Chief of the Department of Fisheries Adisorn Promthep said since receiving‘yellow card’ from the European Union for IUU infringements in 2015, hiscountry has worked hard to reform its fisheries sector and marine ecosystemsaround Thailand have already begun to recover.
More than 22,000 small fishing boats and about 10,600 large trawlers are inoperation in the country.
Over the past 12 months, the operators of 223 small fishing boats and 226 large– commercial ones have been charged with IUU offences.-VNA
The European Commission, an institution of the European Union, on January 8 delisted Thailand from the group of “warned countries” as recognition of its progress in tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Even though the EU has lifted the ’yellow card’ issued as a warning to Thailand over IUU fishing, the Thai government remains committed to the cause and has proposed the idea of establishing an ASEAN IUU Task Force to address the issue regionally.
Localities need to take stronger actions to counter the European Commission’s illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU) yellow card warning, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien.
After learning about regulations of the European Commission’s yellow card on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing or IUU for short, most of fishermen in the central region have obeyed
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Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand Prawit Wongsuwon (Source: AFP/VNA) 
