Government to buy back 1,900 ‘illegal’ fishing trawlers

The government is planning to purchase 1,900 fishing boats from fishermen, to pacify them amid complaints about its tough fisheries policy.

According to Defence Ministry spokesman Col Kongcheep Tantravanich, the steering committee devising the government’s fisheries policy, has agreed in principle to buy boats as a placatory gesture.

Full story: Bangkok Post

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