Friday, January 25, 2008

Cambodian fishermen hooking the big ones - on drugs

Fri, January 25, 2008
DPA

Phnom Penh - Cambodian fishermen were using bait laced with "an addictive substance" to turn the one that got away into the one that came back for another fix, local media reported Friday.

Fishermen in north-western Banteay Meanchey province on the Thai border, around 450 kilometres from the capital, were luring their prey with fermented fish paste laced with drugs, but their more ethical colleagues were crying foul, the Khmer-language daily Kampuchea Thmey reported.

The bait, which is made in neighbouring Thailand and Vietnam, instantly turned popular table species such as elephant fish from fighters into ecstatic love junkies that practically jumped into the boat, the paper said.

Banteay Meanchey provincial governor Orn Sum said by telephone that he doubted the veracity of the reports, but if true, anglers caught dealing drugs to the province's fish population could face legal consequences.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Even fish in Cambodia suffers addiction too.Man oh man Hun Sen is the genius,who say this man is imbecile like his godfather?
Strange though,lots of people included children were fished away by Thai Baht at the daily slavery across border.What a mythical story indeed.
This newly incorporated frontier province could be one of the two prime rice bowls beside Battambang for Cambodia,if much lands were not held and seized by General Ke Kim Yan and his clique.