Fish bombing activities in one of Sabah’s diving havens of Semporna have reduced significantly over the past three years, thanks to real-time bomb-detecting devices.

A new and innovative four-year programme, funded by the European Union and led by the Semporna Islands Project and WWF-Malaysia, was launched during a collaborative and productive stakeholder workshop held in Semporna on May 9–10.

"Stop Fish Bombing is NOT Mission: Impossible” was presented in the “End Use Case Study” Session of the Oceanology International Americas 2023 Conference in San Diego February 14 - 16.

KOTA KINABALU: NGO “Stop Fish Bombing” Malaysia (SFBMY) led by Terence Lim with the tagline: “The oceans sustain us and the planet. Let us bring back life into our ocean” is deploying autonomous drones to spot and photograph fish bombing suspects and trail them as the marine police is being notified to take action.

Now that our Integrated Reef Protection System has us on the path to a technological solution, we have begun to turn our focus on to a more holistic approach.

After two years of pandemic-induced silence, the sounds of blasts and explosions are back in the turquoise waters around Sabah.

At the recent WWF-Malaysia 50th Anniversary Conservation Conference at the Shangri-La Tanjung Aru Hotel in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Stop Fish Bombing Malaysia's executive director gave a talk on fish bombing in Malaysia and SFB's solutions for the problem.

Two fish bombers managed to get away from enforcement authorities by jumping into the sea in Sabah's northern Kudat district.

Stop Fish Bombing Malaysia is supporting WWF Malaysia's coral restoration efforts in Mabul Semporna Malaysian Borneo.

A man was killed and another seriously injured after some homemade explosive materials blew up at the Lata Kekabu Recreational Centre in Lenggong, today.

A recent meeting between Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Haji Noor and European Union (EU) Ambassador to Malaysia, Michalis Rochas, included a status update from SFB Malaysia.

At least four people died on Thursday, May 5, when the homemade dynamite for fishing they were making exploded at a residence in a coastal village in Claveria town in Masbate province, police said Friday.

Police statistics show a decline of up to 30 per cent in the crime rate during the various MCO phases under the Covid-19 pandemic measures. This is not the case for fish bombing.

Sabah Marine Police (PPM) foiled fish bombing and diesel smuggling activities in the waters off Sibogoh island here.

Indonesia and Australia agreed on an alternative livelihood development program, cooperation in supervision and law enforcement, as well as a Public Information Campaign (PIC) to address fishing violations by Indonesian fishermen in the Australian waters.

Decades of blast fishing have destroyed much of the coral reefs off Indonesia’s Lora village, reducing fish catches. A community organization is seeking to have the region zoned as a conservation area.

In central Indonesia’s Spermonde archipelago, a coral reef destroyed by blast fishing — where sticks of dynamite are thrown into the reef to kill fish — has been recovering, but scientists weren’t sure if its ecosystem would return as well. That is, until they heard the endearingly unusual sounds of marine life.

Small-scale and subsistence fisheries play an important role in the livelihoods and food security of several local communities worldwide.

The Sabah government has pledged to undertake several management plans on environmental preservation and conservation as well as green sustainability.

The Integrated Reef Protection System (IRPS) uses the cloud to connect underwater acoustic arrays, the M2 smart radar with high resolution camera and drone, covert hydrophones, real-time hydrophones and sound traps, and boat mounted sensors with the smartphone "Respond App” to displays blast location in minutes for enforcement officials to protect fragile Marine Protected Areas.