VN fishermen arrested
Second Naval Area Command officers on the HTMS Kamronsin have impounded a Vietnamese fishing trawler along with its four crewmembers for intrusion while hunting for sea cucumbers in the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area in the Gulf of Thailand.
The trawler and crewmembers from Kamao City in Vietnam were brought to the Songkhla Naval Base yesterday morning.
They face charges under the Immigration Act 1979 and the Act Governing the Right to Fish in Thai Fishery Waters 1939. This is the fifth arrest of Vietnamese boats intruding on Thai waters this fiscal year.
