PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has strongly objected to the actions of the Singapore Police Coast Guard (SPCG), which allegedly entered the country’s waters on Aug 14 and hit the trawl net of a local fishing boat.
MMEA acting director-general Vice Admiral Datuk Saiful Lizan Ibrahim said in his police report, a fisherman stated that the SPCG boat had hit his trawl net at 0.2 nautical miles southwest of the Tuas checkpoint.
The MMEA, he added, had referred to Malaysia’s Survey and Mapping Department based on the New Map of Malaysia 1979 and the department had confirmed that the location of the incident was within Malaysian waters.
“The department confirmed that the location of the incident reported by the complainant is clearly in the Malaysian Territorial Waters near the Malaysia-Singapore Second Link Bridge.
“The location of the incident is also the usual location for local fishermen in Johor to catch fish and prawns,” he said in a statement to Bernama yesterday.
