2017: A good year for fish

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Cambodians can expect up to 14,000 tons of fish caught from the Tonle Sap, Mekong and Bassac rivers this year, a 5,000 ton increase compared with last year, which will be sufficient to meet all local demand, said the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries yesterday. The ministry’s secretary of state Nao Thouk told Khmer Times that yields from the Tonle Sap Lake were abundant during the start of the fishing season last week.
 

Mr. Thouk said that at the upstream of the lake in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district, between six and eight tons of fish were caught per hour over the weekend. On the downstream, he said, between 300 to 500 tons of fish were caught over the same two days, indicating the abundance in fish yield this year.
 

“This year the fish caught to make prahok will be enough to supply the entire country. The price for fish [for fermenting] is around 1,000 to 2,000 riel [about $0.25 to $0.50] per kilogram,” Mr. Thouk said, referring to the fermented fish paste popular in Khmer cuisine.   He added, however, only 40 to 100 kilograms of fish were caught per hour in Phnom Penh.

 

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