Friday July 30, 2010
Dept to gazette more islands for protection
SETIU: There are plans to gazette 32 more islands as marine parks to protect marine resources and to safeguard corals.
Marine Parks Department director-general, Abdul Jamal Maidin said currently there are 42 islands gazetted as marine parks.
He said his team was collecting information about marine life at the identified islands before putting forward a proposal to gazette them.
“There are 800 islands in the country that can be gazetted as marine parks and so far we have only categorised 42 islands as protected marine zones,” he said after launching a coral nursery programme at the Redang Island Marine Park Centre at Pulau Redang on Wednesday.
The nursery was set up jointly by the Education Ministry in collaboration with the Marine Parks Department and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.
Abdul Jamal said that in Redang itself there were another 20 tiny islands that could be gazetted as marine parks although 13 isles have received the status.
On another matter, he said his department had also detected 352 cases of trespassing by fishermen at marine parks between 2003 and 2009 while 34 cases were recorded in the first six months of this year.
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