Sabah govt to ban fishing trawlers in bid to protect environment
KOTA KINABALU, Sept 3 — Sabah, a known seafood haven, is working on its own fisheries enactment that will increase regulation on fishing activities, including banning fishing trawlers in the future, in a bid to protect its fish resources, coral reefs as well as shark population.
“We should be banning it, but it is incoming, not now. We are going to ban it in the future so trawler operators have time to adjust, knowing when it will be stopped,” said Wong. The fisheries and aquaculture industry in Sabah produces about 200,000 metric tonnes of fish annually and contributes some 2.8 per cent to the State’s annual Gross Domestic Product.
The ban on trawlers is part of Sabah’s agriculture blueprint would eventually include enacting its own fisheries law, reducing its reliance on the federal Fisheries Act 1985 and give it jurisdiction over marine life protection and other matters. “We must have our own laws because we are telling people not to catch this and that but there are no laws to enforce it. So that’s the problem we are facing, same with the shark issue,” Wong said.
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