A blockade commenced yesterday morning at around 9 a.m. at the mouth of the Pran Buri River in front of the Lawana resort.

Since then, no boats whatever have been permitted to enter or leave Pak Nam Pran. Located 25 km south of Hua Hin, Pak Nam Pran is the biggest and most important fishing port in the area, with over 300 seagoing fishing boats based there.

Up to 4 rows of local small squid boats have cordoned of the estuary to protest at the action of larger boats dredging for shellfish off the coast.

According to the locals, the shellfish boats are not from Pak Nam Pran; rather they come from Cha-am, Petchaburi, Samut Sakhorn, etc.

The locals argue that the shellfish boats tear up the seabed, thus leaving precious little for the squid to feed on and that, for this reason, squid have started to become scarce in the area.

The locals on this side of the river, in particular, live almost exclusively from small-scale squid fishing – hence the banks of green light out at sea at night.

It is said that the shellfish boats are allowed to operate and moor in Pak Nam Pran only because they pay off the local harbour police.

The locals have formed a solidarity committee and have said that they will not lift the blockade until the head of the provincial government in Prachuabkirikhan comes to hear their grievances.

They have two demands:
1. that the shellfish boats may only fish outside a certain limit
2. that the head of the harbour police is transferred out of the area.

The locals, with wives and children, are holding a day and night vigil at the blockade and appear to have the full support of the local community, most of whom are linked in some to the squid-fishing industry.

Meetings are apparently being held this afternoon in an attempt to resolve the dispute.

Reported by Barry Stone, Mermaid Cruises.

Hua Hin…………, what where when why who whom? in Hua Hin …following me.…

Almost all the people in Thailand are interested in Ong Jatukarm Ramadhep”, this name comes from the south and is a very famous name. In Hua Hin District at the famous “Huay Mongkol temple” an Abbot named “Pra-Kru Phairoch” has made Ong Jatukarm Ramadhep (as a Magical Buddhism) so it made the holy Jatukarm a reality, at the present time there are many monasteries required to make “Ong Jatukarm” for sale, they are good for making money.

Wondering of making sacred by some magic, the Ong Jatukarm, I have been in formal procedure all the people just looking at the sky who saw the sun was encircled by a halo, and another day the sun was a Jatukarm as a picture of reality, not only this all the television shown a Jatukarm surprise.

Jatukarm made by the magic soil & some magic praying & banana & flower, this is similar to making the magic Buddha rather strong informed sources, so the price changed very fast and is very expensive, starting from 299 baht to 3,500 baht. This is because the people are taking a lot of interest Jatukarm at the moment.

May I introduce to Dr Chainan Thayawiwacha (pictured), managing director of Hua Hin Hospital. He was worried about the medical equipment, especially since the hospital has no budget, his mission was to try to find someone to donate. Finally he went to meet Pra Kru Phairoch Prapasro, Abbot of Huay Mongkol temple, he needed to have around three hundred thousand Ong Jatukarm Ramdhep images. Out of his kindness the abbot donated 3 million baht to the hospital.

Today Dr Chainan Thayawiwat said …now our hospital has funds of about 90 million baht, we can buy the medical equipment already, he said the committee decides how to take care how to use then money and at the present time we have 25 doctors at Hua Hin Hospital.

Reported by …Tuck Dechapanya……………….