Go all out against illegal foreign fishing boats, says Sabah minister


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 23 Aug 2018

This is the first time a fishing boat from the South has strayed acros the sea borde since 2010. - AFP/file

KOTA KINABALU: The state government wants the relevant authorities to go all out and catch illegal foreign fishing vessels operating in Sabah waters, and even legal boats using unlicensed methods.

State Agriculture and Food Industries minister Junz Wong said he had received numerous complaints from local fishing communities that they were seeing more fishing vessels from Vietnam operating in Kuala Penyu (some 100km south-west of Kota Kinabalu).

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