I'm all for "Sustainable Development and Coastal Community Protection", absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I see no need for harsh words for our fishermen, I have gone out fishing with the various communities all along Malaysia's coasts, they are fine folks - and they are poor. They are warm, friendly, caring, helpful... they often load our boats with hundreds of coconuts (for free in case you cheapskates need to know) when we go out fishing. They are relaxed people and some happily join us for booze-ups too.
We can do well with fishing tourism, there's good money in that, fishing is an expensive pastime. When you price in everything needed for an expedition for just a few days, that can easily come to over rm15, 000 bare minimum. Trips of between rm50,000 to 80,000 are quite common. Which explains why sometimes you can find posh cars in run-down fishing villages. The fishermen very often thatch palm leaves over the cars for their appreciative friends.
If you like eating fish, like fishing, like hanging out with friends on fishing trips, you can certainly try fishing, you might even make friends with some fishermen. But don't condescend on them, fishermen don't always understand your posturing or your cock talk.
If you are into kiasu cheapskate bargaining, there are always those "economy class" outings. Don't bring all your families, relatives, friends, and neighbours and try load them in one economy flight, boats can sink.
If you feel like the big man and real deal, always bring a sports bag loaded with cash to be at the ready to help out with repairs to boat engines, the fishermen don't beg you to help them out, if you see good engines lying around unused, a simple outboard engine repair starts at around rm3-500, no parts. The old ones like Mercury, Evinrude, Johnson begin at rm5-850 for a simple go over. Large engines like a Perkins start at at least rm3000 to be looked at. So if you come along with your generous buddies you can easily make a fisherman happy. And I haven't even talked about radars, sonar gear, echo sounders, or even navigation equipment! But no worries, a fisherman is often everything rolled into one person, you save plenty moolahs if one can put up with you.
On second thought, maybe you kiasu types should stay home, do your kiasu bargaining for fish older than four days and worse at the market, just stare at screens and talk disparate about fishermen...
Stupid - dis-ingenious statements from morons!! Take it at face value - fisherman are lazy lots - whining for freebies and too much self importance - never learning new skills. They should be building a large fleet and growing their business but this constant stupidity being managed by politicians from all sides, makes a mockery of those defending them. Don't like penang, get out of the state
I suppose we need to feel their pain too. Scrap rubber for instance is only 2.50 per kg. They can only tap 10days in a month and at 30kg per day at most. They split that with land owner half half
That would earn them rgt 10 per day on average per day everyday.
Haha! Obviously some comments here are by people who are confused or just trying hard to confuse. Obviously the few fishermen who got the boats represent noone but themselves and their own self-interest. The above reasonable demands consistent with SDGs are made by the democratically and legitimately elected Penang Fishermen's Association who represent 6,000 members. They demand transparency from the state government and respect as stakeholders who want to protect the sea and their livelihoods - they have consistently opposed the destructive reclamation since 2015 and rejected freebies which they consider to be open bribery.
They were happy when they all got new boats from the government and collected money from the government. The boats could go ut further into the sea and this earn more income. They even praised the state government as a caring government. Now they act like victims. All works of the evil opposition, if the fishermen still are ungrateful, I pray that their new boats given by government spring leaks in the middle of the sea.
I'm all for "Sustainable Development and Coastal Community Protection", absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I see no need for harsh words for our fishermen, I have gone out fishing with the various communities all along Malaysia's coasts, they are fine folks - and they are poor. They are warm, friendly, caring, helpful... they often load our boats with hundreds of coconuts (for free in case you cheapskates need to know) when we go out fishing. They are relaxed people and some happily join us for booze-ups too.
We can do well with fishing tourism, there's good money in that, fishing is an expensive pastime. When you price in everything needed for an expedition for just a few days, that can easily come to over rm15, 000 bare minimum. Trips of between rm50,000 to 80,000 are quite common. Which explains why sometimes you can find posh cars in run-down fishing villages. The fishermen very often thatch palm leaves over the cars for their appreciative friends.
If you like eating fish, like fishing, like hanging out with friends on fishing trips, you can certainly try fishing, you might even make friends with some fishermen. But don't condescend on them, fishermen don't always understand your posturing or your cock talk.
If you are into kiasu cheapskate bargaining, there are always those "economy class" outings. Don't bring all your families, relatives, friends, and neighbours and try load them in one economy flight, boats can sink.
If you feel like the big man and real deal, always bring a sports bag loaded with cash to be at the ready to help out with repairs to boat engines, the fishermen don't beg you to help them out, if you see good engines lying around unused, a simple outboard engine repair starts at around rm3-500, no parts. The old ones like Mercury, Evinrude, Johnson begin at rm5-850 for a simple go over. Large engines like a Perkins start at at least rm3000 to be looked at. So if you come along with your generous buddies you can easily make a fisherman happy. And I haven't even talked about radars, sonar gear, echo sounders, or even navigation equipment! But no worries, a fisherman is often everything rolled into one person, you save plenty moolahs if one can put up with you.
On second thought, maybe you kiasu types should stay home, do your kiasu bargaining for fish older than four days and worse at the market, just stare at screens and talk disparate about fishermen...
Stupid - dis-ingenious statements from morons!! Take it at face value - fisherman are lazy lots - whining for freebies and too much self importance - never learning new skills. They should be building a large fleet and growing their business but this constant stupidity being managed by politicians from all sides, makes a mockery of those defending them. Don't like penang, get out of the state
I suppose we need to feel their pain too. Scrap rubber for instance is only 2.50 per kg. They can only tap 10days in a month and at 30kg per day at most. They split that with land owner half half
That would earn them rgt 10 per day on average per day everyday.
To feed a family may not be sufficient.
Haha! Obviously some comments here are by people who are confused or just trying hard to confuse. Obviously the few fishermen who got the boats represent noone but themselves and their own self-interest. The above reasonable demands consistent with SDGs are made by the democratically and legitimately elected Penang Fishermen's Association who represent 6,000 members. They demand transparency from the state government and respect as stakeholders who want to protect the sea and their livelihoods - they have consistently opposed the destructive reclamation since 2015 and rejected freebies which they consider to be open bribery.
They were happy when they all got new boats from the government and collected money from the government. The boats could go ut further into the sea and this earn more income. They even praised the state government as a caring government. Now they act like victims. All works of the evil opposition, if the fishermen still are ungrateful, I pray that their new boats given by government spring leaks in the middle of the sea.
Let us see what happen after mb kedah is detained under sosma. They might be scared.
Some people are not scared of heavy-handed fascistic behaviour