SONGKHLA: Marine police on Thursday seized two Vietnamese fishing boats and arrested 11 crew members in the waters off the southern provinces of Pattani and Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Pol Lt Col Nathapong Takaew, deputy chief of the Songkhla-based Marine Police Sub-division 7, said on Friday that the first boat was apprehended around 2pm by a marine police team approximately 80 nautical miles east of the Songkhla navigation floating light.
This boat, with five crewmen on board, was found catching sea cucumbers near Ko Losin island in Pattani.
Shortly after the first seizure, another…
