Large Threadfin (Kurau) RM1, 610

Mohd Rizal Mohd Yunos shows threadfin 15.2 kg sold to customers.

Straits of Malacca again be teeming with fish species, expensive, food spill over into fishing

Fishermen and fish lovers happy threadfin in Malacca back after news spread of a fish wholesaler in Kampung Limbongan, near Cakung, sold two fish species and earn good income of RM1, 610 last week. Fish wholesaler was involved, Hasan Loyot, 47, sold the first threadfin weighing 22 kilograms at RM1, 010 while the second threadfin weighing 15.2 kilograms at 600.

Mohd Rizal Mohd Yunos shows threadfin 15.2 kg sold to customers. Straits of Malacca again be teeming with fish species, expensive, food spill over into fishing Fishermen and fish lovers happy threadfin in Malacca back after news spread of a fish wholesaler in Kampung Limbongan, near Cakung, sold two fish species and earn good income of RM1, 610 last week.

Fish wholesaler was involved, Hasan Loyot, 47, sold the first threadfin weighing 22 kilograms at RM1, 010 while the second threadfin weighing 15.2 kilograms at 600. Hassan said the fish was bought from the fishermen who make a living off the coast of Kuala Sungai Baru, Masjid Tanah. He said he was lucky to acquire a large-sized fish because it is rare and rarely sold.
He admitted that, during the seven-year deal to sell the fish, this is the fourth time for large threadfin fish. Hassan said of threadfin fish is very rare in the Straits of Malacca while senohong more content now, nothing seems kelibatnya the past five years.
"Perhaps because the fish is more rare, there are fish enthusiasts from around the state is willing to pay the high price of RM46 per kg offered. "I do not think the fan response threadfin fish and hope many of the fish caught by fishing conditions, fish have the eggs to be released to enable it to grow back," he said.
For most fishermen, catching big threadfin species is a blessing and a rare good things available in the Malacca Strait. This is because it is considered nearly extinct species, said some players due to the carelessness in the pursuit of fishing trawlers. News threadfin fish sales was also pleasing cuisine restaurateur father and wife, Seafarers in Cakung before, organizes fishing trips for hunting and senohong threadfin.
The owners, Mike Thien, who is also managing director of Boat Explorer Sdn Bhd, said the group had threadfin fish provide lucrative for fishermen in Malacca was once. In fact, he said, hardcore anglers from the east coast and overseas to visit Singapore every year for fishing, threadfin and enjoy a delicious contents. Thien said, threadfin fish species found only in the Malacca Strait and has not been found in the South China Sea.
He said this could be due to the Straits of Malacca policy factors that have a mixture of sand and mud into a natural habitat for threadfin fish grow and reproduce. Meanwhile, a Coast fishermen who declined to be named Princess, to the Fisheries Department to enforce state regulations prohibit the use of nets among fishermen pekap along the Malacca Strait more often.
He said the use of nets pekap identified as part of the main contributors to the destruction of many coral reefs around the Big Island. "The presence of boat operators using trawl nets and tigers worse, until a certain fish stocks in the Strait of Malacca was far less than the era of the 1970s.