THE Fisheries Department is sinking used trawlers, bought from fishermen for between RM10,000 and RM100,000 each, to create artificial reefs in waters off two islands in Kedah.
Besides creating breeding grounds for fishes, department director-general Datuk Junaidi Che Ayub said that the sinking of trawlers also helped to reduce the number of trawlers along the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.
