date:Aug 07, 2012
usinesses.
With this fresh round of registrations, we will be able to regulate the trawlers, the official said.
This will also help operators to export their produce to EU countries.
A study by the Department of Fisheries in 2003 concluded the number of trawlers in Thai waters should be capped at a maximum of 5,730 vessels to minimise impacts on marine ecology.
However, the survey found that there were more than 6,700 trawlers in the Gulf and another 1,145 trawlers in the Andaman Sea.