Living samples of tiny crabs took by PMBC Director Wannakiat Thubthimsang on Friday. The small creatures are found wash ashore at Kata and Karon Beaches. They identified by Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) as crabs, not krill. This discovery inclined to overfishing issue happened in these waters.
Entries from April 26th, 2011
Phuket Crabs Sign Overfishing
April 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Environment and Ecology
Tags: beach·crab·overfishing
Yacht Owner Offers Reward for Boat Burglars
April 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Local Updates
The other owner of yacht yet tethered in Chalong Bay has proposed a reward. Horst Lakits, the owner of Phuket yacht Big A told Phuket Gazette this afternoon, “I have been living in Phuket since 1991 and it is first time my boat has been broken.”
Phuket Hill Crash Kills 14 People
April 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Local Updates
Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation office in Phuket (DDPM-Phuket) raised an official report about accident happened yesterday. The official stated if it is killed six people in Chalong hills because of the brake interference and overloading capacity. A total of fourteen people were injured while seven of them got severe injury. The death victim [...]
First Road Death in Phuket
April 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Local Updates
Phuket’s dream to keep its road is clear from accident is not coming true. The campaign of ‘Seven Days of Danger’ safety campaign was being collapsed in Thalang this morning when a van hit a motorbike in its side car. This accident was killing one man and hurting another. It was happened around 5:30 AM [...]
Warehouse Charred in Blaze
April 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Local Updates
A warehouse building burnt while it took firefighters about 30 minutes to extinguish the incidence early this morning. Phuket City Police received notification about the fire on Wirat Hongyok Road, a few doors behind Lotus Express Shop. When Phuket City and Wichit Municipality firefighters arrived, there was nothing can do to save the warehouse which [...]
Phuket Bike Week 2011
April 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Events, Travel and Tourism
Phuket Bike Week 2011 was bright Patong tonight after festivities of big bike fun and games, live music, and road trips around the isle. At 4 PM today (10/4), a convoy of riders would leave Loma Park on Patong Beach, the main rally point and concert venue for Phuket Bike Week this year.
Tailor Shop Burned
April 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Development and Infrastructure, Local Updates
Flames damaged a two-storey tailor shop following other units in a line of shop cluster on the Patong beach road, on western coastline Phuket early this morning. Motorbike taxi driver Wirote Thongthep called the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation division of Patong Municipality about the blaze at around 3:54 AM. Eight fire trucks and 18 officials [...]
Sick Dolphin Got Phuket Experts Caring
April 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Environment and Ecology
Some experts healed a sick bottlenose dolphin at Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) after it was found floating in the polluted waters of Klong Tha Cheen in Rassada yesterday. The two meters dolphin now is being on treatment by Marine Endangered Species Unit at PMBC, Cape Panwa. The chief of the unit Kongkiat Kittiwatthanawong said [...]