Seventy per cent of the southern reefs at Semporna Priority Conservation Area (PCA) were impacted by fish bombing activities at various levels, said Choo Poh Leem from WWF-Malaysia.

In a comparison made between 2009 and 2014, Choo said more sites had been impacted by fish bombing and the severity of the impact had also increased in the southern reefs.

“More than 50 per cent of the reefs are impacted badly, namely in the high and very high categories, by fish bombing activities,” she said in her presentation during the Sabah Anti-Fish Bombing Symposium here yesterday.

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