THE GUIDELINES FOR SOLVING THAI FISHING PROBLEMS WITH INTERNATIONAL CSR STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study: 1. the causes of Thai fishing industry receiving yellow card from European Commission. 2. The effects of receiving yellow card from the EU Commission. 3. The key guidelines and details of International Corporate Social Responsibility Standard for solving Thai fishing problems. This research study utilized in-depth interviewing of 44 key informants such as 15 Thai fisheries, 13 Thai Seafood Exporters, 6 academic experts, 6 governmental officials, and 4 non-governmental organizations.The findings of this research were as follows: 1. The causes of Thai fishing industry received yellows from European Commission were lack of business ethics and corporate social responsibility awareness of Thai fisheries and Thai seafood exporters. Thai governmental officials ignore to force law regulation seriously 2. The effects of receiving yellow card from European Commission were both positive and negative effects. The positive effects were all involving parties must change the way they worked entire the supply chain to be suitable in terms of legal, business ethic and corporate social responsibility. The government officials must enforce the law seriously without any exception. For the negative effects were at present the export value of fishery products dropped significantly and if Thailand could not solve these problems to meet the European Commission criteria, Thai fishing industry would face the sanctions by the European Commission in the future. 3.The key guidelines for solving Thai fishing problems were 5 issues as follows: Conservation and environmental protection, human rights, Fair Business Operation, customer issue, anti-corruption.