BANGKOK: Around 5,000 Thai fishing boats have stopped operating out of fear they will be prosecuted over new rules, a fisheries body said, as authorities crackdown to avoid a European Union ban on fish products.
The belated clampdown on illegal fishing, which comes in response to a “yellow card” issued by Brussels over inadequate fisheries monitoring, controls and punishment, is threatening to paralyse the world’s third largest seafood producer.
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