Thailand seeks 50,000 men for hire aboard fishing boats

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Thailand seeks 50,000 men for hire aboard fishing boats

 

 

BANGKOK: Despite adverse effects of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, Thailand's fishing industry is currently looking to hire as many as 50,000 men to go out to sea aboard trawlers, said a senior government official on Sunday (May 10).

Phithoon Damsakhon, chief of the Department of Employment's provincial branch of Ranong in southern Thailand, quoted the National Fisheries Association of Thailand as reporting some 50,000 men are currently being sought for hire as skippers, mechanics and other crewmembers aboard fishing boats based in several coastal provinces of the country.

Tens of thousands of Myanmar migrant workers, earlier employed by the fishing industry either on shore or offshore, have already left for their home country and many others are believed to follow suit, thus aggravating labour shortages in Thailand's fishing sector, Phithoon said.

 

Full story: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/05/10/thailand-seeks-50000-men-for-hire-aboard-fishing-boats

 

-- The Star 2020 05-11

[Thailand]

Were they,foreign workers, not treated like slaves before and now they expect the Thai's to take the jobs?

[PatOngo]

42 minutes ago, webfact said:

50,000 men are currently being sought for hire as skippers,

Calling all unemployed airline pilots and truck drivers! Hey you!

[Vigilante]

18 minutes ago, Thailand said:

Were they,foreign workers, not treated like slaves before and now they expect the Thai's to take the jobs?

I think they high-tailed it out of fear

Cramped quarters on boats are terrible for spreading viruses

 

Thais tend to work in the processing plants only.

Boat crews, overwhelmingly Cambodian, Burmese

 

[LomSak27]

Just now, Vigilante said:

Thais tend to work in the processing plants only.

Boat crews, overwhelmingly Cambodian, Burmese

As the captains of said boats were known (documented) to toss offending crew overboard, & or just kill them and then toss, Thais knew enough NOT to work on the boats.

[Puchaiyank]

They need a Thai fisheries union...unite for better working conditions, healthcare, and pay...and I don't even like unions...????

[bendejo]

Looks like press gangs have gone out of style.

 

 

[mrfill]

Can't get a decent slave anywhere nowadays....

[rvaviator]

Maybe the next promotional video for this venture ;

 

 

[alfalfa19]

did they exhaust their supply of unpaid Rohingya slaves? 

[OneMoreFarang]

50,000 men, and how many women?

There should be equal opportunities for women. MeToo and all that.

[chrisandsu]

Ahaaa I have finally figured out how the Indians are going to save Thailand  . 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

BANGKOK: Despite adverse effects of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, Thailand's fishing industry is currently looking to hire as many as 50,000 men to go out to sea aboard trawlers, said a senior government official on Sunday (May 10)

I'm sure the unemployment office has thousands of applicants queuing up for a position aboard ship.

Nice cabin, sea view, fish supper and great working conditions!

[ChrisY1]

4 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

They need a Thai fisheries union...unite for better working conditions, healthcare, and pay...and I don't even like unions...????

You don't mean the company "Thai Union"?.....Professional slave runners!

Anyway....a fishermans union, or more realistically, any union, does not work in Thailand....companies take no notice, the government even less.

[Blumpie]

tourism is destroyed for the next 1-2 years minimum so may as well do something.  

[Epidemiologist Dave]

You are all looking at this the wrong way. Reduce the number of trawlers, stop over fishing and slave labour will not be required. Q.E.D.

[Misterwhisper]

They also could send out recruiters to all those currently jobless bar girls. After all, they know how to bait and hook some fish. 

[lujanit]

There is an extremely disturbing article in the Australian news this morning.  If you read the entire article you will see Thailand gets a mention for slave labour on fishing boats.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-11/indonesia-condemns-abuse-of-fishermen-aboard-chinese-boats-slave/12233312

[rudi49jr]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

50,000 men to go out to sea aboard trawlers,

And how many will come back alive and well?

[tyga]

would be better if they stayed in port and allowed the fish to replenish. hen they'd need less fisherman as it is inefficient now catching fish due to the difficulty in catching enough

[spidermike007]

Perhaps you can start by offering a living wage and treating these men with some dignity and respect?

 

Restarting an economy after an economic shutdown, which was a great insanity experiment, is a challenging thing to do. Assume it will take quite some time. 

[Pedrogaz]

When you sign up for a job, you kinds expect to get paid for doing the work. The chances of getting paid by the charming folk who own and skipper these bats is vanishingly small as thousands of press ganged foreigners, with the cooperation of the local police, have found out to their health, their cost and sometimes their lives.. 

Avoid these boats at all costs. Living in Thailand as I do it is also unimaginable to think that these boats have even rudimentary safety procedures or are maintained to any degree of sea worthiness. Avoid at all costs.

[digger70]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand seeks 50,000 men for hire aboard fishing boats

They will first have to make sure that all the boat owners put in writing ( and adhere to ) new arrangement to better Pay and  work and living conditions and not treat the crew as slaves.

[poohy]

4 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

They also could send out recruiters to all those currently jobless bar girls. After all, they know how to bait and hook some fish. 

Some even smell of it!

[katatonic]

4 hours ago, tyga said:

would be better if they stayed in port and allowed the fish to replenish. hen they'd need less fisherman as it is inefficient now catching fish due to the difficulty in catching enough

It would. Sometimes I look out to sea at night - I can see a chunk of the Andaman Sea from my house - and there are literally hundreds of lit-up squid/octopus boats. When out en masse there are way more of them than before the lockdown and only a couple at other times oddly. But it's not hard to imagine there's serious overfishing going on. No life between here and the Andaman/Nicobar Islands but when you get past them the contrast is amazing: fish, whales, dolphins, birds all the way to Sri Lanka.

[J Town]

1 minute ago, katatonic said:

It would. Sometimes I look out to sea at night - I can see a chunk of the Andaman Sea from my house - and there are literally hundreds of lit-up squid/octopus boats. When out en masse there are way more of them than before the lockdown and only a couple at other times oddly. But it's not hard to imagine there's serious overfishing going on. No life between here and the Andaman/Nicobar Islands but when you get past them the contrast is amazing: fish, whales, dolphins, birds all the way to Sri Lanka.

I live on the 26th floor on Na Jomtien beach. Lately there have been notably fewer boats. I started really watching during that last Buddhist holiday, I thought they were taking a holiday, but less than half the normal night lights out there since.

[mikebell]

They won't get any self-respecting Thai to take a job that involves work.

[DrTuner]

Need to ramp up the illegal fishing again? EU might be sick but not sleeping.

[overherebc]

On 5/11/2020 at 6:12 AM, bendejo said:

Looks like press gangs have gone out of style.

 

 

Nah, now the press gangs work for newspapers or should that be the other way around?

Edited May 12, 2020 by overherebc