Decades-old issue of fish bombing could become a thing of the past, as enforcement efforts transition towards full digitalisation and the use of marine forensic techniques for more efficient detection and prevention.

Terence Lim from Stop Fish Bombing MY attended the Sabah BLUE ECONOMY CONFERENCE (SIBEC 2024) to be part of the solutions for sustainable fishing practices.

The marine ecosystem, particularly coral reefs, faces an imminent threat from illegal blast fishing practices. Our proposal seeks funding to integrate a real-time detection system with immediate coral rehabilitation efforts, ensuring both the deterrence of harmful activities and the rapid recovery of affected marine habitats.

Sabah's First NATURE Gathering took place recently at the Hotel Lab FPEP, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

"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.

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 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.