Netting in our water

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This thread shall be dedicated to the fisheries dept for the daily netting activities in our water.

Pulau Jarak 12-Feb-07. Noticed Perikanan boat on the left and commercial boat on the right laying net from the pinnacle right across the coral reef.

Noted the flag (on the right) not far from the Perikanan’s boat, that’s the fishing nets.

Close up of Perikanan’s boat

When approached by our tekong, the officer answered, ‘ ni salah ke, terima kasih ye’ basically saying ‘is that illegal? Thanks for informing’. So what did they do … continued fishing … Malaysia Boleh!

This is nothing new, nothing too shocking, just another typical activity happens daily in our water, wonder any more hope for our future fish source. Whole night not a single bite (live bait still alive and kicking), no surface activities, no sign of baitfishes, just calm and quiet. Guess the advice from a senior angler is correct, ‘never go to Jarak 1 week before CNY’. Reason given, ‘commercial guys will be going out in full force to the extend of laying nets and trawling near to the island’.

Quoted from an article taken from 32nd Edition of Rod & Line written by En Aziz Daud (sorry Mr D for borrowing your name) dated back in 1998, ‘Dear Mr Authority Sir, what are you going to do about this?’

We are certainly fighting a losing battle! Gong Xi Fatt Chai by the way!

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Bro PC,
Is there a way that we can share this incident with PeMM and report it to higher authority??

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Rory bro,

Certainly, understand few of them in the forum. In the mean time, consider sending it to The Star or may be PM dept and see whether any result.

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its realy a shame,if this article goes to foreign press, i doubt any divers or anglers would be interested to come to malaysia,

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PC bro,
I second you on the thoughts.

I’m stressed up coz there are too many laws in Malaysia, but none of them works effectively. It all served like a white elephant.

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Rory Bro,

Sent a brief report to the PM’s office and received an acknowlegement last week.

This kind of complaint supposing go to the ministry but as usual what can you expect. No choice have to send to PM. But also cant expect much since his hands are tight too many complaints from the public. Guess other NGO merely interested with recruitment. Frustration is the word!

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Sigh~

i heard G has plan to start a online complaint webbie…not sure how true is that.

But i foresee, it’s just another dato in the making.

1day = 1mil reports
How many recruits have to follow up with the complaints?

hahaha

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Bro Rory,

The picture reminds me of our recent P. Jarak trip. Remember one of the Jabatan Perikanan boat were happily fishing there with all their members. I thought you took those picture as the scene looks familiar.

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Makes you wanna cry…


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That’s the typical by-catch of ANY trawler boat operating in Malaysia. A total of 70% of their catches are juvenile table fishes like the kerapu, kurau, jenahak, etc.
If this goes on, Malaysia would be 100% importing fish from other countries in a very short time!

Just as PC has started this thread to expose the going ons in our waters, please post your pics of trawler boats and their by-catches to enable the general public an insight on the destructive nature of the trawler boats and why they should have their licenses revoked. The collated pics would be used to initiate a campaign to ban trawling activities in Malaysian waters.

BTW PC, copies of your pour pics are on the way to the DG of Jabatan Perikanan. Hopefully, some action will be taken.

RainbowRunner

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Rainbowrunner Bro,

Thanks for looking into the matter. Pic taken by Latuk also nothing new. Just drop by any wet market/supermarket, plate of juvenile kerapus, senangins etc selling for $5-$10. For them (the trawlers), every cent count, leave nothing behind. Like it or not, that’s the state of our fisheries management in this country. What can we, as civilians do? Besides writing to the relevant departments which will be swept under the carpet anyway. Sad, sad … [:(]

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Guys,
Need your help in getting photos of bycatch on trawler boats to show the type of juvenile fish caught and killed in trawler nets,PeMM needs these photo for identify the poor baby fish killed by these net contest. Please download photo here for awereness program.

Thank you.


Think of fishing as our life and the fish as air, we need them to survive as much as they need us to take care of their home.

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quote:
Rainbowrunner Bro,

Thanks for looking into the matter. Pic taken by Latuk also nothing new. Just drop by any wet market/supermarket, plate of juvenile kerapus, senangins etc selling for $5-$10. For them (the trawlers), every cent count, leave nothing behind. Like it or not, that’s the state of our fisheries management in this country. What can we, as civilians do? Besides writing to the relevant departments which will be swept under the carpet anyway. Sad, sad …

Same here in Selangor. Same pics as taken by Latuk also happening at the Pulau Ketam fish farms everyday.
Please do not be dissappointed with the non-action by the authorities and give up on trying to right what is wrong. WE have to persevere to overcome all obstacles.
There is an old Chinese saying that goes; “The journey of a million miles begins but with one single step”

RainbowRunner

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Yes, ‘a journey of a thousand-not a million- miles begins with the first step’ but that step must be in the right direction! What is the purpose of photos of by-catch kill? To show to the Fisheries? Don’t they already know about the huge by-catch kill by trawlerboats? Do Pemm have a solution or are they going to do another signature thing to ban the trawlers? Do Pemm have an alertnative job for the trawlerboat workers or another way to better harvest fish from the sea? Do use your brains sometimes!

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Guess what Mejor and RR trying to say is they need a collection of photos evidence to create public awareness on the destruction cause by the trawlers, in a way putting more pressure on the relevant departments to enforce the ruling and carry out their duty.

Very good example will be the article on Star date 10 Jan 2007 refer to the thread below.
http://www.fishing.net.my/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10113&whichpage=1&SearchTerms=trawler,net

Mesh size of 38mm has been introduced in the Fisheries Act since 1985. However till to date it is not made mandatory and trawlers still happily carrying on using 20mm. Deadline 31 March 2007 already passed so what happen now? Case buried and closed? [:(]

Also there are common sightings that trawlers carrying out their activities less than 1 nautical mile from the shore. Believe we have fishery codes to be followed too. Unfortunately, again no enforcement. Well, the departments may be giving excuses their dont have enough boats and officers to carry out their duties. We have coast guards APMM, Perikanan and Navy in the water (which leads to another thread http://www.fishing.net.my/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10431&SearchTerms=coast,guard,). Next question is can they work together closely or do they really need to draw line covers only their own jurisdiction? Can they get rid of the ‘one-eye-jack’ policy as above?

For us anglers worst case just stay in payponds or just pay few thousands for overseas trips. We still have our alternatives. But every citizen and man on the street will feel the pinch from rising cost of seafood no thks to the trawlers for the destructions in our water and authorities for failure to carry out their duties.

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Reelmaker,
Thank you for your comments,I guess you have an idea on how to solve this problem that has been caused by the trawlers.
I am ever willing to hear your ideas and will assist in implemanting it if approved by the PeMM commitee.
Please forward it soonest as everyday we wait,more and more destruction is done to the seas , ocean and even rivers.
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quote:
Originally posted by reelmaker
Yes, 'a journey of a thousand-not a million- miles begins with the first step' but that step must be in the right direction! What is the purpose of photos of by-catch kill? To show to the Fisheries? Don't they already know about the huge by-catch kill by trawlerboats? Do Pemm have a solution or are they going to do another signature thing to ban the trawlers? Do Pemm have an alertnative job for the trawlerboat workers or another way to better harvest fish from the sea? Do use your brains sometimes!
quote:
Originally posted by reelmaker
Yes, 'a journey of a thousand-not a million- miles begins with the first step' but that step must be in the right direction! What is the purpose of photos of by-catch kill? To show to the Fisheries? Don't they already know about the huge by-catch kill by trawlerboats? Do Pemm have a solution or are they going to do another signature thing to ban the trawlers? Do Pemm have an alertnative job for the trawlerboat workers or another way to better harvest fish from the sea? Do use your brains sometimes!
quote:
Originally posted by reelmaker
Yes, 'a journey of a thousand-not a million- miles begins with the first step' but that step must be in the right direction! What is the purpose of photos of by-catch kill? To show to the Fisheries? Don't they already know about the huge by-catch kill by trawlerboats? Do Pemm have a solution or are they going to do another signature thing to ban the trawlers? Do Pemm have an alertnative job for the trawlerboat workers or another way to better harvest fish from the sea? Do use your brains sometimes!


Think of fishing as our life and the fish as air, we need them to survive as much as they need us to take care of their home.

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PC,

Thanks for your respond. What I’m trying to say is what Pemm need the photos for. To pressure the depts. concerned? Don’t need photos as they already know that as per your ref. to the Star article. This is not the first time photos had been requested but what has come out from all those photos? I don’t know.

Has Pemm tried meeting with the depts. concerned and work out something instead of signatures & signatures & signatures. A few hunderd signatures don’t make a loud enough noise. Like Pak Lah said :- Work with me.

Mejor, I’m not one of your foot soldiers so your shouting and barking don’t bother me.

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Mejor,

I know what I posted was good, but you don’t have to repeat it 3 times, you know.

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quote:
Originally posted by reelmaker
PC,

Thanks for your respond. What I’m trying to say is what Pemm need the photos for. To pressure the depts. concerned? Don’t need photos as they already know that as per your ref. to the Star article. This is not the first time photos had been requested but what has come out from all those photos? I don’t know.

Has Pemm tried meeting with the depts. concerned and work out something instead of signatures & signatures & signatures. A few hunderd signatures don’t make a loud enough noise. Like Pak Lah said :- Work with me.

Mejor, I’m not one of your foot soldiers so your shouting and barking don’t bother me.

I guess this approach is all wrong to you and similar campaigns by Kagum and WWF, MNS and all previous signature campaigns are totally useless.

The only ones to benefit are the printers, paper manufacturer and all the pais employees of the NGOs. Unfortunately PeMM cannot afford any paid employees.

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guys, whenever we discuss things like this, we tok-kok more than we do anything, sigh!

want more proof, read the current edition of National Geographic. In there, we already have a detailed analysis of the world ocean problem & its possible solution, or at least some alternative remedial plan to revive the ecosystem, instead of a blanket ban on trawlers which requiers a lot of political gut, which I seriously do not think Malaysian have.

Besides signatures, lets get this message to the public, via our friendly media, hence the R&Line, Pancing & Sirip boys must be fed with our Malaysian version of what’s elaborated in April’s Nat.Geo edition & get them to pump the issues regularly into anglers brain. Heck, the more people who understand this the better. Anglers are also voters!

Reckon PeMM already have avenue to push this message to the relevant authority, hence the required evidence sought from us. More than that, we need to lobby for more trawler free zone, complete with artificial reef akin to what has recently been planted on the sea of Pulau Bidong Terengganu which is supposed to be trawler proof…haaa, mebbe PeMM need to concentrate into getting more of this structure into our waters, because figthing this trawler thingy head on seem like a lost cause, but getting these artificial reef would be easier, I reckon so lah. Mebbe we can proposed a spot & raise fund to part finance the project, rather than wait for 100% budget from authority. I may not need to be that expensive three-thumb reef thingy, it may be just sinking of a few Vietnamese trawlers which we do have in abundance in Terengganu detention area.

Do we leave everything to PeMM, I dont think so lah, many said PeMM tok-kok only, so, lets do what we can individually & target implementation for our local waters, anyhow, we know out local G-man better than PeMM, at least we know who we voted during the last election, or rather, who won it.

Thats it from my tired brain this morning.

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