Agriculture and fishing
Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture
Environmental experts concern of the extinction of rare fish in the northeast province
Environmental experts concern of a drop in the number of rare species of fish in the river in the northeastern province including of the Upper Mekong Basin, Srepok River and Se San river. The worry after a number of exotic fish caught in the area’s ...
Men Sothy
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/environment/concern-over-fishes-losing-02062016035808.html
Mega dam threatens Mekong dolphins
Only 80 Mekong River dolphins remain. Conservation efforts are underway in Cambodia but these unique animals are facing a new threat from a mega dam in neighboring Lao. ...
DW Team
http://www.dw.com/en/mekong-irrawady-dolphins-global-ideas-biodiversity-cambodia-dam/a-19018078
Fishery manual to aid export potential
A trade facilitation manual aimed at increasing the size of Cambodia’s seafood products will be ready by April and looks to help producers and exporters improve their export readiness and take advantage of ASEAN integration. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fishery-manual-aid-export-potential
Fish catches slowing as waters deteriorate
Coastal fish yields declined by 5 per cent in the past year, a coastal fishery administration officer said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fish-catches-slowing-waters-deteriorate
Wonder of the aquatic world under threat from plans for Mekong dams
Scientists warn that plans to build dams across Tonlé Sap, south-east Asia’s greatest lake, could be an ecological timebomb threatening the food security of millions. In a few months’ time, monsoon rains will more than quadruple the size of Cambodia’s Tonlé Sap, south-east Asia’s greatest lake ...
Tonle Sap fish harvest rises, official says
The volume of fish caught to make prahok (fermented fish paste) in the first season on the Tonle Sap Lake and River rose because weather conditions were ideal, but the amount expected for the second season, which begins in February, is likely to be lower ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19468/tonle-sap-fish-harvest-rises--official-says/
Prahok fish yields up, but smaller size to affect output
With the onset of the fishing season for the Cambodian fermented fish condiment prahok, an Agriculture Ministry official said yesterday that fish yields this year have increased compared to 2014, but traders say most of the catch so far is too small to use for ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prahok-fish-yields-smaller-size-affect-output
Farmers and fishermen warily eye changes to climate
In the Kampong Phluk fishing village on the Tonle Sap lake, home to thousands of families in Siem Reap province, fishermen say their catch this year has been too poor to live on. Ning Ny, chief of Kampong Phluk commune, in Siem Reap, said almost ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/farmers-and-fishermen-warily-eye-changes-to-climate/3109070.html
Steel poles used in attack on Tonle sap river
Authorities in Siem Reap province are searching for dozens of ethnic Vietnamese fishermen accused of attacking a group of their Khmer counterparts with steel poles while they were working on the Tonle Sap river on Monday night. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/steel-poles-used-in-attack-on-tonle-sap-river-103156/
Fisherman killed by electrified rat trap
Police in Kandal province on Tuesday arrested the owner of an electrified rat trap that killed a fisherman in a flooded rice field behind the suspect’s home on Monday night, an official said. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fisherman-killed-by-electrified-rat-trap-103174/
Mixed outlook for this year’s catch of trey riel
The season for making prahok, the fermented fish paste that is a staple of the Cambodian diet, has opened this month amid mixed forecasts for the annual catch.Prahok production, which fuels the Kingdom’s largest annual fish harvest, sustains the incomes of thousands of Cambodians, particular ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mixed-outlook-years-catch-trey-riel
New fisheries office inaugurated in Kep
The Fisheries Administration (FA) plans to strengthen its presence in Kep province with the opening of a new cantonment there, officials announced in an official ceremony yesterday morning.The move comes after what conservationists say has been a steady increase in illegal trawling in Kep Bay, ...
Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-fisheries-office-inaugurated-kep
Parasite blamed for fish deaths in Sihanoukville
Fish farms in Sihanoukville have lost an estimated 100 tonnes of fish to an aquatic parasite infestation in the past five days, Fishery Administration officials said yesterday.The parasite, known as “marine velvet” or Amyloodinaum Ocellatum, feeds on fish tissue – giving it a powdered look ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parasite-blamed-fish-deaths-sihanoukville
The Mekong river stories from the heart of the climate crisis interactive
The fate of 70 million people rests on what happens to the Mekong river. With world leaders meeting in Paris next week for crucial UN climate talks, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway – a place that encapsulates some of the dilemmas they ...
Mekong yields first giant catfish of year
One of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world was netted by local fishermen near Phnom Penh earlier this month.A two-metre Mekong giant catfish, weighing an estimated 90 to 114 kilos, one of only a handful left of a species that faces extinction, ...
Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mekong-yields-first-giant-catfish-year
Mekong dams 'a grave threat to river'
Experts are warning that the Lower Mekong Basin may soon face depleting fish stocks, further erosion of the coastline and rising salinity that will make rice fields uncultivable. An extensive, government- funded study by the Vietnam National Mekong Committee estimates the value of fish from ...
Nirmal Ghosh
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/mekong-dams-a-grave-threat-to-river
Illegal fishing busts up 150%: ministry
Fishing crime busts rose 150 per cent during the first nine months of 2015, compared with the same period last year, while anti-forestry crime actions dropped 13 per cent. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-fishing-busts-150-ministry
Yields from fishing take a dive
Exports of fresh fish and fish products fell significantly during the first nine months of the year, raising concerns about businesses and families operating in the Kingdom’s fisheries sector.Fresh and frozen fish export shipments fell 21 per cent during the first nine months of the ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/yields-fishing-take-dive
Mekong dams could halve fish stocks: study
Fish stocks in the Mekong River in Cambodia and the Vietnamese Delta could be halved if 11 planned hydropower dams go ahead, according to the preliminary results of an extensive study funded by the Vietnamese government. ...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17027/mekong-dams-could-halve-fish-stocks--study/
Sustainable fishing tops ocean survey concerns
An international study of the health of the world’s oceans compiled by more than 65 experts this week ranked Cambodia 179 of 221 countries surveyed, confirming the fragility of the Kingdom’s marine environment. ...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sustainable-fishing-tops-ocean-survey-concerns
Thai fishing trawlers unloading catch in Cambodia
More than 200 fishing trawlers from Trat province are now docking and unloading their catches in Cambodia’s adjoining Koh Kong province to evade the strict regulations being enforced against unregistered. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/720088/thai-fishing-trawlers-unloading-catch-in-cambodia
Fishing disputes turning deadlier
Vietnam has accused Thailand of violating international law after the shooting of four Vietnamese fishermen, one of whom was killed, by Thai maritime police in the Gulf of Thailand. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16103/fishing-disputes-turning-deadlier/
Three arrested for smuggling snakehead fish from border
Three men were arrested in Kompong Chhnang province on Sunday for illegally transporting 600,000 recently hatched snakehead fish they had picked up at the Vietnamese border, police said. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-arrested-for-smuggling-snakehead-fish-from-border-94105/
Cambodian NGOs, provincial officials applaud interior minister’s warning against illegal fishing
Cambodian nongovernmental organizations and officials in Sihanoukville province have applauded a warning issued earlier this week by Interior Minister to local authorities to not accept bribes from Thai and Vietnamese fishermen to fish in the Southeast Asian nation’s waters. ...