Thai Officials Warn Releasing Fish Into Nature Wont Bring Good Karma

Thai Officials Warn Releasing Fish Into Nature Wont Bring Good Karma

By Koh Ewe

Source: yahoo

4/15/2024

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Good intentions can sometimes be misguided. Thailand’s freshwater ecosystems this time of year are a testament to that.

Ahead of the Buddhist holiday of Songkran, also known as the Thai New Year, which began on Saturday and ends on Monday, Thailand’s Department of Fisheries warned Buddhists thinking of releasing fish and turtles into local waterways—a popular practice known as “ploi pla” and believed to make merit, or bring good karma—that doing so would actually be a grave sin.

Bancha Sukkaew, the chief of the department, said people should avoid releasing alien species, including some breeds of catfish, pet fish, cichlids, turtles, and crayfish, into natural water. Some of the fish, he explained, are unable to survive in the water they’re released into; in other cases, the introduction of an alien species may disturb the ecosystem.

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