If there are any "achievements" the military government can claim and boast about for its performance during the past three years, its effort to clean up the country's fishing and seafood processing industries is one of them.
After receiving a "yellow card" on the country's marine exports from the European Union in April 2015 due to reported severe rights abuses against migrant workers in the sectors, especially forced labour on fishing trawlers branded as "modern slavery", the government swiftly responded to the issues fearing Thailand could face a total ban from EU markets if there is no reform of the industries.
Since then, the government has introduced new regulations and set up a command centre to root out illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
