Vilasinee Klatalay hör till Moken-folket i Thailand. Tidigare bodde de i båtar på havet och flyttade mellan öarna. Men så ser det inte längre ut. 'When I was young, the water was clear and clean,' they say. 'There were lots of coral reefs and many different kinds of fish.' Today, they have stopped fishing and make a living by selling handicrafts made from plastic they have found in the sea, to tourists.
In 2015, an infamously-scofflaw fleet of more than 70 bottom trawlers from Thailand fished in the Saya De Malha Bank, a submerged plateau the size of Switzerland that lies in the Indian Ocean between Mauritius and Seychelles. The trawlers dragged their nets over the ocean floor, scooping up various types of forage fish, as well as brushtooth lizardfish, round scad, and sharks. Their catch would be turned into protein-rich fishmeal that gets fed to chickens, pigs, and aquaculture fish.
On Christmas Day 2004, our reporter and underwater film-maker Tobias Dahlin was with his family in Khao Lak, Thailand. This is his personal account of what happened then.
The calm turquoise waters along Thailand's coast can look idyllic. But beneath the surface lurks a treacherous disease that is spreading and killing vital coral reefs.
Fishermen risk being left without income and with damaged fish stocks after the oil leak that occurred near the coast of rayong province in eastern Thailand on Tuesday
Between 20 and 50 tons of crude oil have ended up in the ocean since a pipeline began leaking about two miles from popular beaches in Thailand, among other places
