The Royal Thai Government attaches high priority to combatting the Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and has declared this a national agenda and committed to promoting responsible and sustainable fishing.

Since May 2015, the Command Center for Combatting IUU Fishing (CCCIF) was established to pool together the associated government units to work as a team to resolving the IUU fishing problem rapidly. Moreover, Thailand has been working with the European Union, international partners, neighbouring countries, and civil society organizations to address the IUU fishing and geared towards reforming legal framework and restructuring operational mechanism in all aspects and comprehensive fisheries reform.

Thailand’s commitment to combatting the IUU fishing was firmly announced at the Malta Our Ocean Conference during 5-6 October 2017. Thailand stated to adopt related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into our national framework by overhauling our legal and policy frameworks to govern the Thai fishery sector and to tackle the associated human trafficking and labour abuses as well as to establish a labour standard at sea in compliance with international rules and regulations.

So far, Thailand has spent 2.1 billion Thai Bahts (equivalent to 57 million Euros) on combatting the IUU fishing, including the establishment of the Fisheries Monitoring Center (FMC), the development of Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) capacity and traceability system, law enforcement, and the employment of officials and inspectors, etc.