{"id":375550,"date":"2026-04-05T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375550\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:01:09","slug":"thailands-us7-billion-fishing-industry-sinks-as-iran-war-hits-fuel-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375550\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s US$7 billion fishing industry sinks as Iran war hits fuel costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dawn gloom hangs over the pier in Bangsaray, eastern Thailand<\/a>, as buyers arrive to wait for the first fishing boats to return. But like everyone else relying on the day\u2019s catch they have already lost money to someone else\u2019s war.Thailand\u2019s multibillion-dollar fishing industry has been brought to its knees by the runaway price of diesel, a result of Iran\u2019s throttling of the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US and Israel\u2019s attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Half of the kingdom\u2019s vast fishing fleet is already docked, according to the National Fisheries Association of Thailand, which warns that without government intervention the remainder will soon follow: a potential cataclysm for a sector employing hundreds of thousands, from deep-sea fishers to high-end restaurants.<\/p>\n

But the mini-economy on Bangsaray pier, Chonburi province, is staggering on, for now \u2013 even as US President Donald Trump<\/a> vacillates over the next steps in a war he started.\"FishermenFishermen at a pier in Chonburi, Thailand. Photo: Aidan Jones<\/p>\n

Boat owners say they are shouldering the record cost of the diesel required to power the fleet, which last week pushed beyond 45 baht (US$1.38) a litre, more than 30 per cent higher than pre-war levels. And they still have salaries to pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dawn gloom hangs over the pier in Bangsaray, eastern Thailand, as buyers arrive to wait for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[180146,114,12623,54,184,85,87,46,180150,180151,114994,180147,1348,180148,180149,208,18324],"class_list":{"0":"post-375550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bangsaray","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chonburi","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-national-fisheries-association-of-thailand","17":"tag-oil-fuel-fund","18":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","19":"tag-thai-ports","20":"tag-thailand","21":"tag-trailerk-muesantad","22":"tag-udom-jittanom","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-vietnam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}