Terengganu Sultan dives 17m to place inauguration plaque on artificial reef

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Sultan of Terengganu, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, made 17m dive to place an inauguration plaque on an existing artificial reef in the waters off Alur Tuman in Marang on Thursday (Oct 10).   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/mr2f7rhs  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Sultan of Terengganu, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, made a 17-metre dive on Thursday to

00:08place an inauguration plate on an existing artificial reef in the waters of Alur-Tumani

00:13Marang.

00:14The dive, five nautical miles from shore, marked the launch of the Terengganu Recreational

00:19Juvenile Cuboid Artificial Reef Trawl Net Barrier Programme.

00:24Twenty new reefs were deployed, part of 100 reefs constructed this year under the Terengganu

00:29State Marine Fisheries Resource Enrichment Programme.

00:34State Agriculture, Agro-Based Industry, Food Security and Commodities Committee Chairman

00:39Dr. Azman Ibrahim said the state government aims to establish a reef boundary along the

00:45state's 244-kilometre coastline, with plans for an artificial reef cluster every kilometre

00:51to protect Zone A fishing areas from trawler encroachment.

00:55Since 2006, more than 1,500 artificial reefs have been deployed off Terengganu, costing

01:01over R18 million in combined state and federal funding.

01:05Marine resource landings increased to 46,000 tonnes last year, up from 33,000 tonnes in

01:112022.

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