PETALING JAYA: A head engineer of a fishing vessel registered in Fuzhou, China, has been fined RM300,000 after pleading guilty to a charge of trespassing into Malaysian fishing waters.
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), in a statement released Tuesday (Dec 11), said that the accused, 44-year old Tang Tuanqi, was charged and sentenced under Section 16(3) of the Fisheries Act 1985.
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