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100 nelayan teijejas muara sungai cetek
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MARANG: Kira-kira 100 nelayan 
teijejas pendapatan kerana tidak 
dapat turun ke laut mencari 
rezeki berikutan muara Sungai 
Merchang, di sini yang semakin 
cetek.
Seorang nelayan, Mohd. Arif- 
fin Jusoh, 56, berkata, masalah itu 
semakin ketara sejak dua ming- 
gu lalu apabila mereka terpaksa 
menggunakan wang simpanan 
untuk meneruskan kehidupan.
Katanya, masalah muara cetek 
itu berlanjutan sejak berpuluh ta- 
hun lalu dan telah mendapat per- 
hatian kerajaan.
“Ada satu projek pemuliharaan 
Sungai Merchang termasuk men- 
dalamkan muara kini sedang ber- 
jalan dan sepatutnya siap pada 
Disember tahun lalu.
“Namun, projek itu belum siap 
mengikut jadual kerana pelbagai 
faktor dan kami yang hanya ber- 
gantung rezeki dengan menang- 
kap ikan di laut sangat berharap 
ia dapat disiapkan segera,” kata- 
nya ketika ditemui Utusan Ma-
VJ
laysia di sini, semalam.
Lebih menyedihkan nelayan 
terlibat tidak dapat turun ke laut 
sejak tengkujuh melanda Pan- 
tai Timur pada November tahun 
lalu.
Bagaimanapun, katanya, ter- 
dapat sebahagian nelayan mem- 
peijudi nasib turun ke laut dengan 
menunggu air pasang penuh na- 
mun berdepan kesukaran kerana 
terpaksa menunggu dalam tem- 
poh yang lama sebelum boleh 
masuk atau keluar dari muara.
Seorang lagi nelayan, Mohd. 
Ali Abu Bakar, 53, pula berkata, 
muara tersebut bukan sahaja di- 
gunakan oleh nelayan di Kam- 
pung Merchang, sebaliknya 
menjadi tumpuan nelayan dari 
kampung seldtar termasuk Tok 
Fakir dan Gong Balai.
“Ramai nelayan yang me- 
ngalami kerosakan bot kerana 
tersangkut di beting pasir ketika 
cuba masuk ke muara dan ini me- 
nambahkan lagi kerugian mere- 
ka,” ujamya.
NELAYAN terpaksa menolak bot mereka yang tersangkut di beting 
pasir akibat muara cetek Sungai Merchang. Marang. Terengganu.
- UTUSAN/PUQTRA HAIRRY ROSLI


100 nelayan terjejas muara sungai cetek

Mohd Rafi Mamat

Pengunjung tak selesa bau bangkai ikan dalam tasik

Intan Maizura Ahmad Kamal

HE message blinks onto 
my phone screen, a wel­
come disruption from 
the monotony of a stalled 
story draft. "Misssss! I 
got some news for you. I just broke 
my fourth record!" The exuberance 
is palpable even through text, a digi­
tal echo of Selinaah Muralitharan's 
excitement.
TL 1\La.
u As I read through the message, 
memories of our last conversation 
come flooding back. Then, it was all 
about her proud achievement in the 
Malaysia Book of Records. Now, the 
young woman I once knew as a dedi­
cated medical student and rising poet 
will soon be graduating as a doctor.
But it seems that she’s added another 
milestone to her collection of records.
“My university, Malaysian Allied
Health Sciences Academy (Mahsa) is a calm and focused presence, 
will be presenting me with my second 
Asia Book of Records award next week," 
the message scrolls across my screen, 
continuing: "ITl be sitting for my finals corner, her enthusiasm cutting through moving. If they stop, they die," she’d
this November, so this will be my last the ambient noise. I note that her cof- enthused,
poetry achievement as a medical stu- fee cup is nearly empty, the remnants Unable to resist my curiosity, I’d
dent!" swirling in the bottom like a reflection piped in incredulously: "And you’re a
shark because...?" And with a big grin, 
I remember her replying: "Ahhh, you
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This young medic navigates the 
worlds of medicine and literature with 
her relentless shark-like spirit, writes 
Intan Mairara Atesad Kama!
Fulfilling 
a dream of 
swimming 
next to a 
whale shark.
PIX COURTESY 
OF SELINAAH 
MURAUTHARAN
I recall her continuing her story, 
She rises from the wooden stool, a tone playful. "Miss, do you know that 
lanky, slim figure clad in a simple light sharks can never stop swimming? 
blue sports top with a Yonex logo in the Even when they’re resting, they're still
Maybe I’m the one who has changed 
Maybe I’m growing a different point of view. 
From never wanting to be apart 
Now I'm actually line with losing you.
I'm fine with leaving you behind 
As long as it doesn’t cost me my sanity, 
I loathe us now but over time- I let out a quiet chuckle, realising it’s of her busy, multifaceted life.
"Oh my God, Misssss... it’s sooootime for us to reconnect. As I prepare
to set aside my half-hearted writing nice to see you again!" Her voice, warm see, even when I’m stressed or sleep- 
attempt for the day, a sense of antici- and genuine, wraps around me as she ing, I keep swimming. Sharks know,
pation courses through me as I look greets me, beaming broadly. what they want. When they smell blood,
forward to being swept up in another "Are you still a shark?” I tease the they go full steam ahead. That’s me.
bubbly Cancerian as we sit across from When I want something and I know I 
each other, the warmth of our reunion really want it, I just go for it. I’m a shark, 
filling the cosy cafe nook. We both burst Miss!"
The cafe in Bangsar, the "port" where into hearty laughter, the joke from our 
■ j we’d agreed to meet for our overdue previous meeting coming alive once naah suddenly exclaims: Miss, guess
/ catch-up is alive with the clatter of cups more. what! This year when I went to Cebu
and the murmur of conversations, Selinaah’s laughter rings in my Island in the Philippines, I finally man- 
but amid this cacophony. Selinaah, ears, and I’m transported back to our aged to realise my dream of swimming
a former national shuttler last encounter, more than a year ago. I with the largest shark in the world —
and younger sister to recall her earnest face, framed by her the whale shark!"
Malaysia’s worn- glasses, as she introduced herself. Her Her eyes dance excitedly when she
en’s badminton words from that day — "I’m a shark, continues; "We were taken to the mid­
doubles pair- Miss"— suddenly swim into my mem- die of the ocean in a boat. I tell you Miss,
[ ing, Thinaah ory with vivid clarity. the whale shark was HUGE —as big as
I Muralitharan, We were sat at a discreet al fresco this shop. But I never felt scared. They 
corner of a popular Damansara cafe, don’t harm you. They just swim past 
and I’d studied the beaming, bespec- you. Can I show you my video?" 
tacled young woman before me, won­
dering if perhaps she had lost her BALANCING ACT 
marbles since our initial meeting in As Selinaah sets her phone aside, the 
2020. Back then, at her family home screen still glowing with images of her 
in Klang, I had come to interview her swimming beside a majestic whale 
for her proud entry into the Asia Book shark, I ask her about the other facets 
of Records for her record-breaking love of her busy life since our last meeting.
"I’ve been juggling studying, writing 
“Shark?" I remember asking her, and travelling, Miss," she replies, he 
completely puzzled, noting how her voice a blend of weariness and resolve, 
eyes sparkled with mischief.
She’d confided: "I always tell my medical school as a whirlwind of 
friends I’m a shark! From young, I’ve intense medical postings (at Hospital 
had this fascination with sharks and Kuala Lumpur) and relentless exams, 
collected many books about them, all demanding a high degree of com- 
My dad used to put Animal Planet on mitment. "It’s been incredibly stress- 
for me, and every time there was a ful,” she adrnits, her brows knitting 
show about sharks, I’d be glued to the together as she emphasises the strain.
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Wc will both gain prosperity.
A perfect mismatch
With destiny adding a little twist.
Wc need to abort this relationship
lively encounter.To avoid putting our lives at risk.
THE SHARK RETURNSSelinaah’s favourite stanza focuses on
As we both grin at the memory, Seli-clarity and acceptance.
poem. My Soulmate.
She recounts her fourth year of
Young medic- 
cum-poet 
Selinaah
Muralitharan. screen.


: this young medic navigates the worlds of medicine and literature with herrelentless shark-like spirit

Zatul Iffah Zulkiply

: dua vesel nelayan Vietnam ditahan

Nurul Ezzaty, Mohd Azhari

Ikan zebra ganti 
tikus makmal
6 M
UPM giat ternak 
spesies itu bagi 
memudahkan 
penyelidik 
melakukan kajian
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Okli Nurol Ess^aty Mohd Aahad 
bhpendidikan@bh.com.my
Serdang: Universiti Putra Ma- 
laysia (UPM) giat melakukan 
pembiakan ikan zebra di Labo- 
ratori Ikan Zebra sejak 2012 bagi 
tujuan memberikan kemudahan Dr Siti Munirah sedang melakukan pemantauan tindak balas terhadap ikan 
kepada penyelidik melakukan zebra. 
kajian termasuk dalam pene-
muan dadah, neurosains, dan menjelang tahun 2035. 
ekotoksikologi.
Sebelum ini tikus makmal
sering digunakan penyelidik Justeru, ikan zebra dilihat seba- 
untuk menjalankan kajian me- gai model haiwan yang berpoten- 
ngenai perkembangan vertebra- si sejak dua dekad lalu di seluruh 
ta dan penyakit, termasuk da- dunia, terutama di dalam kajian 
lam bidang toksikologi, namun toksikologi. 
kosnya agak mahal selain me-
makan masa dan menimbulkan oleh Ketua Laboratori Penyelidi-
kan Ubatan dan Produk Semula-
Sebagai tindak-balas terha- jadi (NaturMeds) di InstitutrBio- 
dap isu itu, Agensi Perlindu- sanis (IBS) UPM, Prof Madya Dr 
ngan Alam Sekitar Amerika Siti Munirah Mohd Faudzi yang 
Syarikat (EPA) mengumumkan mepjelaskan ikan zebra mempu- 
hasrat untuk menghentikan nyai persamaan genetik yang be- 
penggunaan mamalia, terma- sar dengan manusia. 
suk tikus dalam penyelidikan
%&
dar pembiakannya cepat, kebo- 
lehan untuk diubah suai secara 
genetik selain kos yang rendah, 
dan kemudahan pengendalian 
yang baik berbanding tikus ma- 
kmal.
“K^jian juga menunjukkan ba- 
hawa otak ikan zebra dan mama- 
lia berkongsi sistem neuroanato- 
mikal dan isyarat neuronik asas 
yang relevan dengan penyakit 
otak manusia,” katanya.
“Hal ni menjadikan ikan zebra 
sebagai model yang berguna un- 
tuk menilai kecacatan tingkah 
laku sosial, termasuk autisme 
atau Autism Spectrum Disorder 
(ASD)katanya.
Hal ini turut diperakukan
isu etika.
“Selain itu ia unik kerana ka-


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