Fish pulled from New World pond
Supoj Wancharoen
Workers from the Fisheries Department and Phra Nakhon district are moving about 3,000 fish out of Bangkok’s condemned New World shopping centre where they have swum around for more than 10 years.
The district contacted the department to remove the fish from the ground floor of the mall in the Bang Lamphu area. Staff from fisheries research and development centres in Samut Prakan, Pathum Thani and Ayutthaya were assigned to carry out the task.
The workers and fisheries staffers used fishing nets and gear to corner the fish and relocate them to centres in the three provinces.