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Commercial fishermen across Thailand have decided to end their protests after the government pledged to assist with problems which they believed stemmed from measures taken to curb Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.Rallies against the government’s stringent regulations aimed at countering IUU fishing have been ...

Disgruntled fishermen from 22 coastal provinces have threatened to raise the level of their protest if the government does not respond positively to their demands for relaxation of stringent regulations within three days.An estimated 8,000 fishing trawler operators and boat crew on Tuesday converged outside ...

New regulations to please the European Union (EU) will not lead to sustainable fishing, a major commercial trawler association said on Tuesday (April, 10) “Fishermen are now unhappy with fishing regulations prescribed by authorities. These regulations have put us in a tough situation. The practices ...