Fishy business: Stinking ponyfish blanket Thai tourist beach

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Officials believe the catch of ponyfish had been dumped by local fishing trawlers.

Some 300 metres of beach on Naka Yai island was littered with dead ponyfish, Phuket provincial fisheries chief Siripong Panasonthi told AFP, adding authorities were working to determine the cause of the deaths

but had ruled out pollution in the water.He said he believed the catch of ponyfish -- which, when caught alive are sold to make animal feed but are worthless when dead -- had been dumped by local fishing trawlers.

 

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