Terengganu Fisheries Dept officers to go undercover to monitor turtle egg sales

Terengganu Fisheries Department Resources Protection Unit officer Hairul Effendy Adzmi (right) and fellow department officers onducting a check at Pasar Besar Kedai Payang in Kuala Terengganu.

KUALA TERENGGANU: The Terengganu Fisheries Department will use undercover tactics to monitor the sale of all types of turtle and 'tuntung' (northern river terrapin) eggs after the ban on the sale of exotic food came into effect on Wednesday (June 1).

The department’s Resources Protection Unit officer Hairul Effendy Adzmi said the presence of enforcement officers without uniforms was vital to ensure that no traders dared to sell turtles eggs even discreetly.