Trespassing boats may get destroyed


  • Nation
  • Monday, 06 May 2019

JOHOR BARU: Malaysia, which will send a protest note to Vietnam over the encroachment by its fishermen into waters here, is not ruling out destroying wayward foreign fishing vessels.

This would be the government’s last course of action, especially if the crew on these boats behaved aggressively towards enforcement officers, said Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Datuk Salahuddin Ayub (pic).

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