Fishery resources could fall this year because of a lack of flooding
along rivers and waterways impeding fish from travelling freely or finding food
to encourage their growth, a fishery official says.
Sam Nov, deputy general director
of Fishery Administration at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry,
said the level of water in Tonle Sap had reduced, resulting in decreased
disbursement of the fish that migrate there.
He said that according to
observations of small-fish migration from the Mekong into Tonle Sap, the number
of small fish migrating had not changed, but less water made those fish grow
more slowly.
“Due to little water this year,
fish could not go everywhere, so those fish could not grow faster and have a
small size,” he said.
“If they are small, their weight
will be less than in the previous year.”
Minh Bunly, program co-ordinator
for Tonle Sap Lake at the Fisheries Action Coalition Team, a Cambodian alliance
of local and international NGOs, said there were varying views from fishermen
in
different areas.
He said some believed that
outputs dropped because of the lack of flooding, but some said the amount
increased as a result of limiting fishing lots owned by the wealthy.
Chheng Kimheng, a member of the
Phatsanday fishing community in Kampong Thom province, said she agreed that
fish were smaller because those caught were on average about 0.3 to 0.5
kilograms, whereas last year, they were between 0.8 and one kilogram on
average.
Rann Reuy
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