Other organisations* and communities involved in striving to end fish bombing in Sabah:
* Banggi Youth Club is a non-governmental organisation formed in 2009. Amongst its activities, members volunteer to help rebuild reefs on destroyed coral reefs and help to patrol the waters around their island to discourage destructive fishing.
* Berungus Village, Pitas District has been conducting anti fish bombing enforcement and monitoring their own resources since 2003.
* Department of Fisheries Sabah‘s main responsibilities is the management of the exploitation and conservation of fisheries resources in Sabah.
* Green Semporna is a community of volunteers who engage in conservation and preservation activities of the environment in and around Semporna and nearby islands.
* Reef Check Malaysia is a non-governmental organisation specialising in coral reef conservation, including conducting a programme of work to reduce the incidence of fish bombing in Sabah through education and awareness.
* Save our Seas Foundation has been funding projects in over 50 countries across the globe, while working with leading scientists, innovative conservationists and dynamic educators worldwide. One of the projects it has helped fund is Dr Elizabeth Wood’s acoustic project in the Tun Sakaran Marine Park.
* Teng Hoi is a conservation organisation based in Hong Kong which has monitored the destructive practice of blast fishing in Hoi Ha Wan. It is presently working to create a system to detect fish bombs in Sabah with technology developed in the U.S.A.
* The Lighthouse Foundation funds sustainable projects that involve man and sea including the acoustic project in the Tun Sakaran Marine Park.
* WWF-Malaysia’s Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion Programme is based in WWF-Malaysia’s Kota Kinabalu Office and has field projects in Kudat-Banggi Priority Conservation Area (PCA) and the Semporna PCA.
If your organisation is involved in providing alternative livelihood options to the fishing community or is helping to end fish bombing by other means, please drop us a line and we’ll add you to this list of resources