Officials Consider Export Numbers Fishy

3 May 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Exports / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Livestock farming / Trade
Bright Star Cambodia Fishery and Trading Co Ltd / Bright Star Cambodia Fishery and Trading Co Ltd Owner Danh Sovong / Cambodia’s Fish Action Coalition Team / Cambodia’s Fish Action Coalition Team Executive Director Om Savath / Chinese aid / Danh Sovong / Exports / Fish / fisheries / Khuon Savuth / Kong Putheara / Malaysian aid / Marbled Goby Fish / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries / Ministry of Commerce / Ministry of Commerce's Statistics and Information Department / Ministry of Commerce’s Camcontrol General Department / Nao Thouk / Om Savath / Singapore

The Ministry of Commerce has released figures showing Cambodia’s export of fishery goods including fresh and dried fish products have decreased drastically in the first quarter of the year, though several government officials viewed the figures with scepticism.

Cambodia exported 49.9 tonnes of fish products in the first quarter of the year a sizable drop from the 620.14 tonnes exported over the same period in 2012, the ministry’s data showed. …

Om Savath, executive director of Cambodia’s Fish Action Coalition Team, said that in general fishery production had declined this year, as the government had reduced the number of fishing lots throughout the country. …

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