ILLEGAL FISH TRAPS SEIZED

SURAT THANI: Authorities have seized 80 illegal fish traps in Bandon Bay in this southern province. Nobody showed up to claim ownership of what officials have classified as destructive fishing gear.

An illegal fishing suppression task force on board a patrol vessel found the 80 two-sided collapsible traps, each about 5 metres long, in the waters off tambon Kadae in Kanchanadit district. They were responding to complaints by local fishermen that the use of destructive fishing gear was rampant in the bay.