The productivity of both the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea is also starting to improve - increasing by 40% in the Andaman Sea and by 80% in the Gulf of Thailand since their lowest-ever point in 2017. [...] Mr Sukcharoenkana focuses on several areas of our analysis: Crew lists and at-sea crew transfers: Article 82 & 83/1 Most of the drafts on the table remove the requirement to provide a crew list, in contravention with the ILO’s Work in Fishing Convention, ratified by Thailand in 2019. [...] While this regulatory aspect is significant, it should not serve as a replacement for the obligation to provide a crew list, as emphasised in Article 15 of the ILO’s Work in Fishing Convention, designed to safeguard the rights of workers on fishing vessels. [...] At-sea trans-shipment and watering down of monitoring systems: Article 85/1 & 87 Many of the political party drafts clearly extend the authorisation of at-sea trans-shipment to “fishing vessels that have notified the Port Control Center in accordance with the DG’s announcement.” The word “notified” implies that fishing vessels are not required to receive permission from the authorities before proc. [...] This would open the door for unscrupulous operators to conduct systematic, undetected illegal fishing and overfishing - at the cost of the fishers who play by the rules.
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