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During the first month of the closure of the Stung Treng commercial fishing season, the Provincial Fisheries Administration have seized more than 11,000m of floating fishing nets and more than 2,000 hooks and fishing lines.
In the closed fishing season until June 7, the Stung Treng Provincial Fisheries Administration is continuing its crack down on illegal fishing gear.
The Wonders of the Mekong project and the National Fisheries Administration – in collaboration with the Fisheries Administration in Stung Treng province – released 100 endangered fish into the Mekong River on May 16, said a Fisheries Administration official.
Fishermen living in the northern provinces along the Chaktomuk River – including parts of the capital and neighbouring Kandal province – have resumed fishing after it was suspended from June 1 to September 30.
More than 500 electric shock fishing rods and nets weighing more than seven tonnes, as well as a range of other illegal fishing equipment, have been confiscated by Battambang provincial authorities in the past three months, according to Fisheries Administration (FiA) officials.