Fishermen find it tough to make ends meet living


“HOW many did you catch?” Pak Mat shouts to the fisherman in a small boat to his left. The young man stops scanning the net he has just pulled out of the water, turns to Pak Mat and says, “six only.”

His answer echoes what fishermen in Port Dickson have been telling me lately. It’s getting harder to survive as fishermen.

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