Drive to protect marine creatures

senseless act. This severed head of an adult dolphin was found floating in Sungai Miri yesterday not far from the South China Sea fronting Miri City leading to suspicions that this rare marine mammal may have been illegal captured and slaughtered for its meat. pic by a dive master.

MIRI: An awareness campaign is being carried out in fishing villages along the coastal shores of Miri district in northern Sarawak to try and get fishermen to avoid catching and killing rare and protected marine animals, such as dolphins.

The Marine Fisheries Department have deployed staff to the fishing villages along the coast to talk to the fishing communities on the need to conserve and protect these rare marine creatures.