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Thailand has declared the prevention, deterrence, and elimination of the illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing as a national agenda, and has pursued the reform of the entire fisheries system with a view to promote sustainable and responsible fisheries.
Thailand has built upon the reforms of all dimensions undertaken during nearly the past 3 years, including the reform of legal framework and implementing regulations, the fisheries management limiting the fishing license issuance in compliance with the quantity of aquatic animals, the fleet management putting control over fishing vessels of all sizes and types, the monitoring, control and surveillance through port-in and port-out control, installation of vessel monitoring system (VMS), and especially installation of electronic reporting system (ERS) electronic monitoring system (EM) for oversea fishing fleet, as well as the development of traceability system for catches from Thai-flagged vessel
Fisheries data collection of Thai oversea fishing fleet including biological data of aquatic animal collected by the observer onboard, total catch and effort data collected from electronic fishing logbook (E-logbook) that part of ERS. E-logbook initiated for the trawler fishery due to as of now Thailand has no vessel operate in IOTC area of competence. In the future, if Thailand has a tuna fishing vessel will continue to develop E-logbook for tuna fishing gear.
The traceability system for catches on Thai vessels, the process starts from checking the origin of the catch, cross checking species and weight of the catch as recorded in the logbook against the actual ones recorded during landing. Both of data (logbook and landing declaration) has been consistent analysis and record data information in “Thai-flagged” database system. Furthermore, these data will be reported annually to IOTC secretariat for monitoring and analysis of the marine resources for long term sustainable management.
