{"id":5113,"date":"2020-07-19T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2020-07-19T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:02:43","slug":"ismail-kdn-to-consider-proposal-to-impose-whipping-on-foreign-poachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=5113","title":{"rendered":"Ismail: KDN to consider proposal to impose whipping on foreign poachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUALA TERENGGANU, July 18 —\u00a0The Home Ministry will consider a\u00a0proposal to impose whipping on foreign fishermen who are found guilty\u00a0for\u00a0poaching in Malaysian waters. Its Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ismail Mohamed Said said it was to curb poaching by foreign fishermen that had been happening for a long time and the existing fines and jail terms\u00a0were seen as not\u00a0sufficient as a lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Fisheries Act 1985 provides for a fine of up to RM6 million for a skipper and up to RM600,000 or a jail term of up to two years, or both for a crew found guilty of poaching in the country’s waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis proposal (whipping) depends on our discussions at the ministry level later,” he told reporters after visiting the Terengganu Maritime headquarters here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ismail also suggested that locals who were found to be abusing their boat licences by giving and renting them to foreign fishermen be blacklisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is just our proposal to the Fisheries Department, (because) they are the ones who issue\u00a0the licenses. If we just\u00a0cancel the boat permit or license, they can re-apply using a\u00a0new boat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Ismail said the ministry would also consider providing two assets to the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), namely the Multi-Purpose Mission Ship and Maritime Patrol Aircraft to further strengthen enforcement and defence activities in the country’s waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another development, Ismail said, 26 Vietnamese fishing boats were seized by the MMEA since Ops Kuda Laut was launched on June 24, involving seizures worth RM40 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the arrests involved 21 cases in Terengganu, Sabah (three) and Sarawak (two).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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