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2023-03-22 15:46:44
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Ahmad Izzudin bin Ramli
Perikanan, Nelayan
22 March 23
1987-08-04
Terengganu
Private sector
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New Straits Time
Fishermen’s associations need not enlist Government assistance to boost memberships, State Fisheries De partment director Brahim Salleh said today. “They should instead try and serve their members better by offering more visible benefits so that others would be attracted to join them,” he said.
Encik Brahim was commenting on reports that the National Fisher men’s Association (Nekmat) would request State Fishery Departments to make it compulsory for fishermen to join Nekmat to renew or secure new licences. Nekmat president Hassan Ismail stated this in an interview here yesterday. He regretted that only about half of the country’s 70,000 fishermen were members of Nekmat.