Industry full of potential

Xxxxxxxxx: Ahamad Sabki (on right) taking alook at the tuna industry strategic development plan book of 2012-2020 at the Malaysia Fisheries Research Institute in Batu Maung, Penang. With him are (from left) Fisheries Research Institute Director Abu Talib Ahmad and Fisheries licencing and Resources Management Director Johari Ramli. STAR PIC BY : ZAINUDIN AHAD / 4 February 2014 / Reporter: Logeis

MALAYSIA has the potential to become an international tuna port due to its location near to the Indian Ocean which is a tuna spawning ground.

Fisheries Department director-general Datuk Ahamad Sabki Mahmood said this could be achieved easily with good facilities and partnership with other countries which have a similar industry.