The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Fisheries
Working Group describes Thailand's fisheries management as
characterised by “a lack of political will… to implement, rather
than merely articulate, the actions required to address IUU
[Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated] fishing”.
Insufficient
capacity to enforce management measures resulted in a 97 per
cent reduction in the catch per unit of effort (CPUE) in the Gulf
of Thailand in the 45 years between 1961 and 2006.5