EU extends grace period to Thailand to stop illegal fishing
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Bangkok
THE European Union has given the world's third-largest seafood exporter Thailand another six months to end illegal fishing, said Thai Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon, over a year after Brussels threatened Bangkok with a trade ban.
Thailand's fishing industry employs more than 300,000 people, many of them migrant workers from neighbouring countries who are often subject to ill-treatment.
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