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Thai industry acts to stress seafood safety after tsunami.
Byline: Sujintana H.P. Arunmas
Jan. 6--Thailand's fishery and seafood processing industries moved yesterday to restore consumers' confidence that it is perfectly safe to eat seafood, which many people fear will be contaminated from exposure to the remains of tsunami victims.
While some Thais have begun to shun seafood and sales at local markets are slipping, Hong Kong's Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has suggested fish may have ingested heavy metals churned up from the seabed by the earthquake on Dec. 26.
The Thai Overseas Fisheries Association said that since more than 50 percent of the seafood supply in Thailand was from the deep ...
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...around Natuna, Halmahera and in the Arafura Sea. Sularso said the perpetrators...mostly fishermen from Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. In the waters around...from the Philippines. And in the Arafura Sea, most of the fish poachers were...
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...Indonesian Ambassador to Thailand Mohammad Hatta said here on...the Indonesian embassy in Thailand will act as a bridge between...fishermen in Indonesian waters. "Thailand has a very good fish market...Batam or Natuna and in the Arafura Sea in Maluku or Papua. They...
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...embassy in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, has recently formed a fishery...Muhammad Hatta said. He said Thailand was potentially a massive...Indonesian fish as 90 per cent of Thailand's fish was supplied by Indonesia...Islands province, and in the Arafura Sea. Indonesia's fishery Law...
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- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) January 23, 2007 700+ words
...been seized for illegal fishing in Indonesia had been sent back to Thailand, and only 120 remained there. "The rest is no longer in Thailand but are operating in the Arafura sea," he said. He said his office had handled 133 fishing cases including...
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...foreign fishermen from the Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan. There are only two export...NTT, Makassar strait, Masalembo sea, Arafura sea, Scram (Maluku) and southern Java...waters. A number of countries including Thailand, China and the Philippines, have protested...
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- Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic October 13, 2003 700+ words
...Sea, Gulf of Aden (E) Ganges River (F) Timor Sea, Arafura Sea (G) Arctic Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Indian Ocean 3...Russia, Mongolia, China, Myanmar, Laos (opt.), Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia 5. 1,500 miles
Source: HighBeam Research, Thai industry acts to stress seafood safety after tsunami.