Minister: Stop Illegal Fishing or Step Down

Interior Minister Sar Kheng has publically warned government officials in the areas surrounding the Tonle Sap Lake that they will be fired if they continued to allow illegal fishing. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the “2016 Annual Working Results and the Direction of 2017” at the Siem Reap Provincial Hall on Wednesday morning, he demanded that provincial governors do more to stop fishing crimes in the Tonle Sap Lake.
 

“All provincial governors around the Tonle Sap Lake will be dismissed from their positions if they let fishing crimes occur in their provinces,” he was quoted as saying on the National Police website. The deputy prime minister added that the government will create a taskforce, led by National Police chief Neth Savoeun, to crack down on illegal fishing in the lake and will provide the group with speedboats to conduct better enforcement.
 

“These actions will be carried out regularly. I will also fly over the area to check every two weeks to a month,” he said. He stressed the need to address this issue immediately after he noticed illegal fishing activities being rampantly committed in a portion of the lake that was in Battambang province as he was flying over it recently.
 

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