Fisheries Dept bans fishing in Andaman Sea

2 April 2019
National News Bureau of Thailand
Environment and natural resources policy and administration
Andaman Sea / bans fishing / marine creatures

The Department of Fisheries has banned fishing in the Andaman Sea off four coastal provinces for three months to allow marine creatures to breed and the ecosystem to rehabilitate.

The Director-General of the Department of Fisheries, Dr. Adisorn Promthep, said the fishing ban, covering 4,696 square kilometers in the Andaman Sea off Phuket, Phang Nga, Krabi and Trang, will be enforced from April 1st to June 30th, 2019.

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