Police arrest pair on illegal fishing charges

Police have arrested the managers of two firms operating fishing

boats which are accused of illegal fishing in foreign waters.

Thanongsak Raksawong and Suwit Thepprasit were arrested

 on Sunday, deputy national police chief Srivara

Ransibrahmanakul said Monday.

Thanongsak is the manager of Siam Tuna Fishery Co, which

operates two fishing boats -- Mook Andaman 028 and

Mook Andaman 018.

 

Mr Suwit is the manager of Sales Service (Thailand) Co, which

 runs three fishing vessels -- Yu Long 6, Yu Long 025 and

Hongsifu 68.

 The managers face charges of sending boats to catch fish in

 foreign waters without permission from the Command Centre

 for Combating Illegal Fishing (CCCIF), which violates

 a National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) order.

Each offence carries a penalty of up to one year in prison

and/or a fine of up to 100,000 baht. Police are investigating

 whether there was any human trafficking involved on the boats,

Pol Gen Srivara said.

If that turns out to be the case, the managers will face additional

 charges, he said.

 A manager of Three Wonderful Co, which operates a fishing

 vessel called Seribu, also faces the same charges but is still

 at large.

Gen Srivara said the manager, Trairong Nim-anusonsuk, told

 him he would surrender to police Tuesday.

According to Pol Gen Srivara, all six boats were also found

 to have expired fishing licences.

Brought before a police press briefing Monday, Mr Suwit said

 he worked for a Taiwanese company which owns two of the

fishing vessels and he was pleased to cooperate with the

authorities because he was innocent.

He said he would order his crews to bring the firm's two ships

 back to port for further inspections.

 

News,General,Bangkok Post ,26 January 2016.

 

In my viewpoint,in order to meet the EU standard and the

 standard of our country,we should stick with the law.

 

Any firm or anyone who find violate the law should

get  punishment for their guilty so that the violation

of the law will not occurred and wish to be stop in

 the future.

 

Sincerely Yours.