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Khamis, 6 November 2014


ANGGOTA penyelam Jabatan Perikanan Sarawak yang cedera diberikan bantuan perubatan. - Foto NSTP

MUKAH: Tiga anggota penyelam Jabatan Perikanan Sarawak mengalami kecederaan parah apabila perahu nelayan yang dinaiki tiba-tiba meletup kira-kira jam 9 pagi tadi.

ANGGOTA penyelam Jabatan Perikanan Sarawak yang cedera diberikan bantuan perubatan. - Foto NSTP

Insiden membabitkan letupan daripada bahagian belakang perahu yang sedang dalam perjalanan meletakkan tukun di dasar laut berkenaan berlaku di lebih 12 batu nautika dari Kuala Mukah sekali gus mengakibatkan tiga daripada enam penumpangnya mengalami kecederaan parah.


Mangsa mengalami kecederaan di dada dan patah kaki dikenali sebagai Azman Osman, 45, Wan Morni Wan Ibrahim, 52, dan Iskandar Ismail, 37, dibawa ke Hospital Daerah Mukah untuk rawatan lanjut.

ANGGOTA penyelam Jabatan Perikanan Sarawak yang cedera diberikan bantuan perubatan. - Foto NSTP

Menurut juragan, Muhd Airul Hipani, 21, berkata tiga buah perahu nelayan berlepas ke lautan pada jam 7 pagi tadi dari Mukah, sebelum sebuah perahu yang berada di tengah-tengah tiba-tiba meletup dan mengakibatkan kecederaan pada penumpang. -bharian

Selasa, 4 November 2014

Friday, October 17, 2014

KOTA KINABALU: Fishing enthusiasts captured a juvenile whale shark off Marudu Bay, Wednesday night, and towed it to Kg Teritipan where it was chopped into pieces and loaded onto a lorry that headed for a fish meal fertiliser factory in Tuaran, Thursday morning.

Villagers kept the large pectoral, dorsal and tail fins worth hundreds of ringgit in the market as shark fins!

The whale shark – the biggest fish in the world – is facing extinction and thus their action is a blatant, open violation of Malaysian and international laws. Malaysian fisheries laws are clear that any behviour like harassment, disturbance, capture, killing and transportation of this legally protected and endangered species is punishable by imprisonment or fines. The whale shark is listed as an "endangered species". Thus its capture is banned under a schedule in the Fisheries Act 1985, together with species in the dugong, whale, dolphin, giant clams and sawfish groups. A member of the public tipped off UMS lecturer Dr James Alin early Thursday, who immediately headed for Marudu to investigate. On arrival past 11am, he found chopped up pieces of the creature sprawled on the ground and ready to be sent to the fish meal fertiliser factory.

Further probe found that the culprits headed to sea Wednesday evening to cast their Rantau (a kind of trawl net tied each end to the back of two boats).

"The Rantau trawl net is not like other pukat (nets) where fishermen can fix it to poles, go home and then come back to collect the catch. They have to wait overnight from their boats which trawl it along the seabed," Dr James said.


"By 1am, they caught the whale shark in the Sebayan area of Marudu Bay right in front of one of the most beautiful little islands – Pulau Matunggong, where a similar capture happened last year," Dr James said.

"I asked them whether the whale shark was alive or dead when they found it, they claimed it was dead. But how can one say it was dead when they actually saw the animal hit the net and put up such a big struggle that it tore a big hole in their Rantau?" Dr James said.

"I queried that point because the law says any whale shark that runs into a fishing net alive must be freed and put back to sea, not dragged back to shore for slaughter, " he noted.

"They started towing it back at 9am and reached Kg Teritipan by about 11am and chopped it up quickly, a total of 640kg."

"They claimed to have sold the meat at 40 Sen to the waiting 'middleman' for the fish meal factory. It's hard to believe because whale shark meat is a delicacy in China especially if proper freezing and storage facilities are available," Dr James said. "The villagers keptthe huge fins because once dried, they are worth hundreds of ringgit in the upmarket," Dr James said. Dr James is an avid campaigner against destruction of marine life and was responsible for blowing the whistle on the culling of turtles by unscrupulous persons for their meat and shell in Kudat early this year.

A Special Report on a history of whale shark killing in Sabah would be featured in the Daily Express this Sunday. -Daily Express
16 Oktober 2014

PETALING JAYA: Gambar seorang wanita rakyat Malaysia bersama ikan paus yang dipotong kulit oleh nelayan di jeti Tanjung Gemok, dekat Pulau Tioman telah mencetuskan kemarahan di kalangan rakyat Malaysia dan Australia.

Sebuah portal dalam talian melaporkan bahawa seorang pengguna Facebook telah memuat naik beberapa gambarnya  dengan spesis dilindungi itu yang dipotong kulit oleh nelayan pada 4 Oktober lalu.

Dia didakwa menulis 'gembira' kerana ini adalah kali pertama melihat spesis tersebut.

Dipercayai ikan itu telah dipotong untuk dijual di pasaran tempatan.

Walau bagaimanapun, tidak diketahui sama ada ikan paus tersebut memang diburu oleh pemburu haram, tidak sengaja ditangkap oleh nelayan, atau terdampar di pantai.


Portal Australia PerthNow juga melaporkan berita tentang wanita ini yang bergambar dengan spesis tersebut yang merupakan lambang binatang laut yang baharu di Australia Barat dan membangkitkan kemarahan di kalangan warga Australia.

Komen di laman web Australia mempersoalkan keperluan untuk membunuh ikan paus, dengan beberapa orang menyeru agar pendakwaan dikenakan terhadap pemburu.

Gambar-gambar ini telah dikeluarkan dari Facebook. -mstar
23 October 2014

SEMPORNA: A dive instructor was found dead after he went solo diving at Pulau Sipadan near here, early this week.

The diver, identified as Chen Hui, 36, from China had gone to the world renowned dive site with three oxygen tanks, on Monday.

He was last seen diving alone at about 10.30am before other divers discovered his body near the Sabah Parks jetty at the island.


District police chief Superintendent Peter Umbuas said there was no wound on the body.

"We found leftover food spilled from his mouth and we believe the diver drowned," he said when contacted, adding police ruled out foul play.

Mazlan said Chen worked as a dive instructor here for three years and was supposed to return to China yesterday.

The body has been taken to the district hospital for a post- mortem.

- NST

Isnin, 3 November 2014

Harrison Williams melompat ke atas bangkai ikan paus yang dikelilingi ikan jerung mengundang bahaya ke atas dirinya dan orang lain. – AGENSI

SYDNEY 2 Nov. – Seorang lelaki Australia bertindak bodoh apabila melompat dari bot yang dinaikinya ke atas bangkai seekor ikan paus, walaupun dia mengetahui sekumpulan ikan jerung sedang mengelilingi bangkai haiwan gergasi itu.

Dalam kejadian yang berlaku semalam di pesisiran pantai Mindarie, Australia Barat, lelaki berkenaan, Harrison Williams yang merupakan peminat sukan ekstrem, mengaku dia bertindak sedemikian kerana mahu menyelamatkan paus berkenaan.

“Saya melihat ikan paus itu seperti memerlukan bantuan tetapi sudah jelas bahawa saya terlambat membantunya,” kata Williams kepada akhbar Daily Mail Australia.


Bangkai paus itu dilihat terapung di kawasan perairan itu sejak beberapa minggu lalu dan pihak berkuasa Australia memberi amaran kepada orang ramai agar tidak menghampiri haiwan tersebut ekoran beberapa ekor ikan jerung harimau dan seekor ikan jerung putih mengelilingi bangkai paus berkenaan.

Jurucakap Jabatan Perikanan, Tony Cappelluti menyifatkan perbuatan lelaki itu sebagai tidak bertanggungjawab dan boleh mendatangkan kesan buruk bukan sahaja kepada mangsa, tetapi orang lain yang melihat kejadian tersebut dan pihak yang mahu membantunya.

“Jika sekumpulan jerung sedang makan bangkai ikan paus dan lelaki itu berenang ke arah pemangsa itu, tindakan itu mengundang risiko tinggi,” katanya. -utusan
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