Seeing potential in tuna industry

Munir Mohd (third right) and visitors looking at a Bigeye Tuna model after launching the tuna convention at Pen Mutiara in Batu Maung. With him is state Fisheries Department director Noraisyah Abu Bakar (right).

THE tuna industry in Malaysia has the potential to produce 130,000 metric tonnes of the fish worth RM1bil by 2020, said Fisheries Department director-general Datuk Munir Mohd Nawi.

“And to help market the tuna, business apps must be created so that customers from all over the world are able to order such products online.