PHNOM PENH, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian officials are worried about the fish production this year because of the low water level of Mekong River, a senior fishery official said Saturday.
The low water level could cause difficulties for fish to lay their eggs in lakes and branches of the Mekong River, Nao Thouk, head of fisheries department of the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, told Xinhua.
Nao Thouk said that if the water level of Mekong River still does not rise in the next few weeks, the fish production this year will decline.
Last year, Cambodia had about 442,000 tons of fish production across the country and it provided over 200 million U.S. dollars national revenue as well as about 2 million U.S. dollars tax from fish lot, Nao Thouk said.
The revenue did not include the income from fish exportation to China, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the U.S. and Australia, he added.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
The low water level could cause difficulties for fish to lay their eggs in lakes and branches of the Mekong River, Nao Thouk, head of fisheries department of the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, told Xinhua.
Nao Thouk said that if the water level of Mekong River still does not rise in the next few weeks, the fish production this year will decline.
Last year, Cambodia had about 442,000 tons of fish production across the country and it provided over 200 million U.S. dollars national revenue as well as about 2 million U.S. dollars tax from fish lot, Nao Thouk said.
The revenue did not include the income from fish exportation to China, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the U.S. and Australia, he added.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
2 comments:
In year of 2007 do not so worry a bout that
because a lot flood from of East China and a lot
of rain in Cambodia, but in the future it going
to be the big concern that is because of
(The family tree) This story coming from
The Cambodia prime minister and family
name Hun Sen and family, this execute life
style learning from khmer rouge( Hun& his wife
used to be and still)the khmer rouge killed Cambodian
for China and Hun Sen cut all the tree do make Cambodian
PPL starving and flee the home town to suffer and die
then for VIet NAm the hun's master.
So sad 2008 come Are we waking up?
The corrupt attribution of fishing lot is a huge problem on the Tonle Sap. Large amounts of fish are taken from the lake in a non-sustainable way, leaving local fishermen without income, and generating vast amounts of money for the elite.
More problematic for the future is the construction of dams in China, which will reduce the flow of the Mekong river in such way that low levels will happen every year, causing the problems described in this article again and again...
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