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The EU has threatened to slap sanctions on Thailand’s fishing industry if it doesn’t clean up its act, but one leading expert said the timeframe is too short to make any real changes. Politically and economically the Thai government will attempt to comply but the timeframe is perhaps too short for it to satisfactorily clean up the industry before sanctions are imposed, Robert Dayley, author of the book "Southeast Asia in the New International Era," told Borderless News.