Category: MCC Updates

On February 4th we were invited to attend the release of two Green Turtles that we had assisted in rescuing from an Illegal IUU Vietnamese Pair Trawler. Late on the evening of the 3rd of February we locating the illegal boats and informed to Kampot Fisheries, their quick actions of apprehending the boats then saved the life of these Two beautiful turtles, the Female weighed in at 110kg and the Male 125kg. They were tagged and released after a much needed rest, a few moments to late and they would already have been dead, both were exhausted and took almost a full day to recover enough to be safely released.

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We are more than proud to announce the arrival of our new Patrol Boat, after years of chasing the illegal fishing boats in our old wooden boats, often not much faster than the boats we are chasing (thats not to say we didn’t catch a lot using them). We now have the one thing we needed most, and its already making an impact.

We have a very big thank you to say to our supporting partner ICFC (International Conservation Fund of Canada), who without their support this would not have been possible.

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We just attended the first meeting hosted by the Ministry of Forestry Fisheries and Agriculture, together with the Department for fisheries conservation and Kep’s provincial fisheries, to present and discuss the proposed boundaries of the upcoming Marine Fisheries Management area.

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We have begun work on the first phase of a very large Project, this project will work in parallel with the upcoming MFMA, the project is to create Artificial structures that can be used as Natural Aquaculture, Essentially our definition of natural aquaculture is a system that requires no feeding and minimal maintenance, using the natural resources and managing them sustainably to create a never ending supply of resources for local fishers.

These structures will also work as anti trawling devices to protect the core conservation areas to be defined in the MFMA zoning plan.

For the full details on this project click here.

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Follow the Link Below to see the Trailer for the new documentary currently being made on MCC’s Fight against Illegal And Destructive Trawling and Fishing.

Barang Teaser for World Oceans Day from TINY on Vimeo.

Please follow the link to listen to a 30min Podcast from the students of The Liger Learning institute, speaking with MCC and talking about marine conservation issues in Cambodia. Link here

We just want to show off a little, when we began there was no fish left around our island, extreme overfishing and destructive fishing had left the area void of fish, if we saw 2 damsels on a dive it was a major event, now after 2 years of hard work and vigilance, we are seeing amazing results.

Below is a video taken under our pier, showing what can be done with very little money but tons and tons of passion and a little bit of love.

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