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Chukai: Kementerian Per- 'dapat harga setimpal de- ada sediakan lori untuk 
tanian dan Keterjaminan ngan hasil diusahakan. penghantaran di kawasan 
Makanan (KPKM) mengge- “Apa yang saya lihat ta- bandar. Kita ada keper- 
sa Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan di, harga ikan kerisi di sini luan pengangkutan dan 
Malaysia (LKIM) dan Per- dijual RMio untuk tiga ki- penambahan peruntukan, 
satuan Nelayan Kebangsa- logram, berbanding di ka- saya akan berbincang de- 
an (Nekmat) mengatasi wasan bandar contohnya ngan Kementerian Kewa- 
masalah jurang harga ikan di Pasar Taman Tun Dr ngan,” katanya selepas 
di kawasanluarbandardan Ismail, harga dijual ada- mengadakan Program 
bandar. lahsekitar RMi2untuksa- Santai bersama nelayan,
Menterinya, Datuk Seri tu kilogram ikan berke- di LKIM Kemaman di sini, 
Mohamad Sabu berkata, isu naan. semalam.
orang tengah masih ber- “Ertinya di sini, peranan Dalam pada itu, Mo- 
leluasa hingga menjadi orang tengah masih lagi hamad berkata, pihak 
punca jurang harga yang kuat. Jadi kita harap LKIM berkaitan juga perlu adil 
amat ketara. dan Nekmat dapat me- dan tidak memberi te-
Beliau menegaskan, wa- mainkan fungsi ma- kanan kepada nelayan 
laupunhargaikandapatdi- sing-masing. hanya semata-mata un-
kurangkan kelak, namun “Mungkin pihak berkai- tuk mendapatkan harga 
nelayan seharusnya men- tan boleh bincang, sama murah.


LKIM digesa atasi jurang harga ikan di luar bandar dan bandar

Ahmad Zaidi, Hazira

Pindah benih keli: Penternak ikan sangkar siap siaga hadapi musim tengkujuh

Reuters

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Filipino fishermen's dilemma in South China Sea
longer able to fish freely at the open sea,” says the 45-year-olcl. 
atoll, and sometimes chased
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The Scarborough Shoal is
EVER since he was a teenager, Fil- away before they have even named after a British ship that 
ipino fisherman Rony Drio has caught anything, they are forced was grounded here in 1748 but is 
been sailing into the heart of the into the open sea. known to Filipinos as Bajo de
South China Sea to fish at the This costs more in fuel, leading Masinloc or Panatag — a Tagalog 
Scarborough Shoal, a large atoll many into a vicious cycle where word for “peaceful”, 
rich in fish stocks that has be- each trip leaves them more in- An international tribunal inval- 
comeoneof Asia’s most contest- debted and thus forced to travel idated China’s claim to 90 per £ •
further next time to catch more cent of the South China Sea in
2016 but Beijing does not recog-
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it has become increasingly dif­
ficult and dangerous to fish at the longer able to shelter from storms
atoll — some 200km off the Fil- in the turquoise lagoon of the it has maintained a constant de-
ipino coast — because of aggres- Scarborough Shoal, making their ployment of coast guard and fish- coast of San Salvador. important fishing ground for
sive action by China, which trips more dangerous. ing trawlers. Pamalakaya, a national alliance more than 385,000 registered
claims the disputed shoal. “We were just trying to make a There was some respite for Fil- of fishermen, says fishermen in fishermen, contributing a total of
Filipino fishermen in San Sal- living but we were driven'out. ipino fishermen after Rodrigo Zambales province have lost 304,000 metric tonnes of fish
vador Island in the Masinloc mu- Many of us dread seeing China’s Duterte came to power in Manila around 70 per cent of their in- from 2018 to 2022.
nicipality told the Thomson coast guards,” says Drio. in 2016 and relations with China come because of restrictions on But it is now becoming eco-
Reuters Foundation that China “Everything we have now is improved. access to the shallow, bountiful nomically unfeasible” to fish in
was using speedboats and water debt. If you had a debt from a Fishermen were allowed back waters of the Scarborough Shoal, the area due to dwindling catch-
cannon to block access to an area fishing trip, you need to sail again to the shoal but tensions have Tabat says before 2012, a fish- es, destruction of coral reefs, ha-
tliat is inside the Philippines ex- so that you can pay for it and that mounted since Ferdinand Mar- erman could earn 8,000 to 10,000 rassment by Chinese vessels, and
elusive economic zone but was incurs another debt ... It’s a cy- cos Jr, who has forged closer ties Philippine pesos a week but that inclement weather, with fisher-
cie” with Washington, became pres- has plunged to around 2,000 to men unable to shelter in the
Jimmy Tabat, another fisher- ident last year. 3,000 pesos, meaning it can take shoal, the study says,
as the Philippines steps up its de- man from Masinloc, says three Drio says fishermen are suffer- three weeks to catch enough fish It also says China is destroying 
fence posture in the South China days on the shoal used to yield ing mentally, as well as econom- to break even. the coral reef at Scarborough
Sea, an area long seen as a po- enough fish to feed fishermen’s ically, with some reporting anx- “We were fishing at a loss. At through giant clam digging op- 
tential flashpoint between the families and leave them with iety attacks and trauma. times we could take nothing erations, in which coral reefs are
United States and China. some savings. “I can only hope that we can home.” pulverised to gather the clams
The high seas drama has “Fishing trips inside the shoal fish freely again on the shoal with 
slashed the incomes of the fish- consume less fuel and produce a peaceful mind,” Drio says as he Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
ermenofSan Salvador Island. No more fish than (in) the deeper sits near his fishing boat on the says the South China Sea is an
An aerial view of the mouth of the Chinese-controlled ScarboroughThe fishermen are also no nise the ruling.
Since it seized the shoal in 2012, Shoal on Sept 18 this year, afp pic
seized by China in 2012.
The skirmishes are taking place
The Philippines’ Bureau of underneath.-
The writer is from Reuters


Filipino fishermen's dilemma in South China Sea

Tengkujuh: Ikan baung laris dalam sejam

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Fishermen: Fix shallow river estuary problem
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tarv representative in the Kema- ing village here: 500 fisheimen here.
| man by-election to resolve the is- Zuami Mat said the breakwater Barisan Nasional. (BN) candi- 
! sue of the shallow river estuary in project implemented by the state date foi the Kemaman by e 
i-iiparpa government failed to solve the tion General (Rtd) ran bn Raja
Fisherman Zuaimi Mat Ali, 59, problem. |^ohanVed Af.f* of
' said the shallow river mouth, Zulkifli Abdul Ghani, 63, con- hamedNoor said he was aware of 
$ made it difficult for them to go curred, saying the problem was the problem and would look into 
out to sea and land their catch, a affecting their income, 
situation which thev had en- "It's worse around this time, as
countered for almost five years. we cannot go out to the sea be- chief of the Malaysian Armed 
“When the water recedes, we cause of the monsoon. The waves Forces will face Terengganu 
have problems taking the boat are huge. Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Ah
our to sea “Thankfully, the federal gov- mad Samsun Mokhtar of Pas in a
eminent has given us (fishermen) straight fight for the parhamen-
tary seat. Bernama
• it.
The former commander-in-
A fishing boat along the shores ofPantai Tanjung Kemasik in 
Kemaman yesterday, bernama pic
“When we want to land our 
catch, we have to anchor far from a RM300 monthly aid.”


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