BANGKOK, Aug. 10- Thailand joins forces with CCAMLR to push “snow fish” to export to 26 countries, informing entrepreneurs to prepare to comply with conditions. Ensuring IUU-free
Thavorn Tanjai, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Fisheries and a spokesman for the Department of Fisheries revealed that The Cabinet has approved and approved the Department of Fisheries to sign the Letter of application for cooperating status to express their intention to join as a non-member country. but cooperate (Cooperating Non-Contracting Party: CNCP) according to Conservation Measure 10-05 of the Commission on Conservation of Marine Life Resources Antarctic Ocean (The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources: CCAMLR) for Thailand to be granted the right to produce a catch certification document for snowfish. and recording import-export toothfish through the Electronics Catch Documentation Scheme: e-CDS) of CCAMLR to prevent and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) snowfish fishing and are traceable throughout the production chain. and managing marine resources responsibly and sustainably. The Department of Fisheries is responsible for recording data in the system.
For toothfish, it is a high-value fish and is conservatively controlled to prevent extinction under the CCAMLR Convention. There were 289 tons of snow fish imported, valued at 327.97 million baht, and exported 2.67 tons, valued at 0.91 million baht. As a result, Thailand was able to expand the snowfish export market to 26 CCAMLR member countries, namely Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Namibia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain. Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay and European Union. The above countries will not accept snowfish from countries that have not implemented the CCAMLR catch record system.
In the past year, the global snowfish trading value was 20,872 million baht, with the main importers being the United States, Singapore, and Spain. Prepared to comply with the agreement that the Department of Fisheries has made with CCAMLR to ensure that the export is correct. Thailand is ready in terms of production standards that are internationally accepted. There is also a control system to inspect imported aquatic animals to ensure that aquatic animals do not come from illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, in line with the Marine Resources Conservation Standards. CCAMLR.-Thai News Agency
Source: Thai News Agency