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PHUKET: A patrol boat of the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command boarded and seized two Indonesian boats caught fishing illegally in Thai waters and brought the 19 crewmen, including a 13-year-old, to
Navy inspections find no illegal workers on Phuket fishing boats
Navy inspections find no illegal workers on Phuket fishing boats
PHUKET: Random inspections of four Phuket fishing boats by Navy personnel yesterday (Mar 4) found no illegal migrant workers among the 147 fishermen checked, reports the Thai Navy.
Photo: THAI-MECC Area 3
The raids were conducted to prevent any illigal human trafficking, reported Vice Admiral Cherngchai Chomcherngpat of the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command.
V/Adm Cherngchai also serves as Director of the Third Area Command’s Maritime Enforcement Coordination Centre (THAI-MECC Area 3), which conducted the inspections yesterday, led by Capt Kriangkrai Lai-ngern of Phuket Naval Security Control Centre.
Phuket Fishing Port on restricted entry
Phuket Fishing Port on restricted entry
PHUKET: Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew today (Dec 23) issued an order banning all non-Phuket based fishing boats from docking in Phuket.
Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub
The move is hoped to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to the island by crews on board visiting fishing boats, as a vast majority of the crewmen aboard Thai fishing vessels are migrant workers, many of them from Myanmar.
Governor Narong explained in the order that the outbreak of COVID-19 in Samut Sakhon and other provinces posed a threat to health of people on the island, hence the need to regulate which fishing boats were allowed to continue to port in Phuket.