Ban on feeding fish at diving sites
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The National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department has banned visitors from feeding fish in popular scuba diving spots in the Andaman Sea because they say such action affects the natural food chain.
Also, some fish seemed more aggressive and preferred bread to seaweed. This problem is most severe at Maya Bay in Krabi province.
Songtham Suksawang, chief of the Trang Marine National Park Innovation Institute, said the regulation will initially be imposed at Koh Surin and Koh Similan, and as with the ban on feeding monkeys at the Khao Yai National Park, violators will be fined.
