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continually pressing Thailand over illegal fishing activity, urging the Thai
government to stop doing favors to the Europeans.
The peaceful protest was organized by the Thai Fishery Association and held
at the Mae Klong fish market in Samut Songkhram province, about 80 km southwest
of Bangkok.
It was against the EU, which has apparently exerted pressure on the Thai
government over the illegal and unregulated fishing, better known as
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The protesters are mostly fishermen, trawler crewmembers, seafood vendors,
workers at Samut Songkhram fish market and businesspersons related to fishing
industry.
Thai Fishery Association president Mongkol Sukcharoenkhana charged that the
sustained EU pressure had brought enormous trouble to Thailand's fishing
industry as a whole despite the fact that most fish and seafoods produced by
this country had been traded for domestic consumption rather than exported to EU
member states.
Bilateral trade between Thailand and the EU amounted to some 43 billion U.S.
dollars yearly, including the exports of Thai fresh and frozen seafood products
to EU member states.
Nevertheless, Mongkol called on the Thai government to review its policy
against IUU activities and put the interests of the Thai fishermen and others in
fishing industry ahead of the EU demands for continued crackdowns on suspected
IUU activities.
The authorities have taken measures against IUU activities by monitoring and
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