Status of Sarawak fisheries : challenges and way forward / Wen Chiat Lee ... [et al.]
Fisheries are important to Sarawak’s economy. Fisheries provide job opportunities and income to the people besides contributing to Sarawak’s gross domestic product. Sarawak’s fisheries can be divided into marine capture fisheries and aquaculture. In this paper, we discuss the status of Sarawak fishe...
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Universiti Teknologi MARA, Cawangan Sarawak
2020
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| Online Access: | http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40311/1/40311.pdf http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40311/ http://ijsmssarawak.com/ijsms_vol_5_2/9.M068_Sarawak_Fisheries.pdf |
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| Summary: | Fisheries are important to Sarawak’s economy. Fisheries provide job opportunities and income to the people besides contributing to Sarawak’s gross domestic product. Sarawak’s fisheries can be divided into marine capture fisheries and aquaculture. In this paper, we discuss the status of Sarawak fisheries. Moreover, challenges of fisheries in Sarawak are also discussed. The major challenges are encroachment by illegal fishers and
poor institutional organizations of fishers, and more recently, the impact of
Covid-19 on Sarawak’s fisheries. There are three suggestions for
sustainable fisheries development in Sarawak. Firstly, the control of illegal
and undocumented fishing; secondly, the transformation of fishermen
associations into functioning cooperatives to improve welfare and
livelihood of fishers; and thirdly, the development of aquaculture to
augment fisheries production and increase the income of fishers and rural
people. |
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