Fisheries in Sabah
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In comparison to the muddy waters of Sarawak, the coastal resources of Sabah are dominated by reef fisheries and are heavily overfished.
Catches in Sabah in 1998 (shown in the table below) in total amounted to 130,000 tonnes with almost twice the fisheries effort of the maximum economic yield and much greater fishing effort than the optimum effort required for maximum sustainable yield ( = 201,000 Mt). |
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Sabah used to have the highest catch rate for all states in Malaysia, the 1998 survey shows that catch rate has declined drastically; by nearly 74% since 1974. With all large fish stocks reduced by over 95% and almost no reproduction there is little chance of major improvement without major changes in policy.
All fisheries resources that depend directly or indirectly on coral reefs are declining, and fish bombing (blast fishing) and cyanide are the main culprits. |
THE 1998 FISHERIES RESOURCES OF SABAH, EAST MALAYSIA
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SEE ALSO:
|DESTRUCTIVE FISHING - ISSUES| |SABAH FISHERIES| |SARAWAK TRAWL FISHERIES| |PELAGIC FISHERIES| |REEF FISHERIES|
|CYANIDE FISHING| |BLAST FISHING| |GROUPERS| |SWEETLIPS| |HUMPHEAD WRASSE| |SNAPPERS| |SOFT BOTTOM FISH COMMUNITIES|