The Fisheries Department is urging fishing boat operators to register their foreign workers by the end of May.
Niwat Suthimichaikun, director-general of the Department of Fisheries, said that he had told the fishery offices in all 22 coastal provinces to quickly instruct owners fishing vessels and fishery businesses to register their illegal foreign workers at the Fisheries Department’s 7 labor coordination centers or at the Employment Department offices in the 22 coastal provinces.
The Fisheries Department was also collaborating with other agencies to provide mobile registration units to help with registration of foreign labor.
According to Mr Niwat, the Cabinet on August 6, 2013 endorsed fishery operators to register their foreign labor twice a year – once during March and May and again during October and December.