WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1988
THE
EARNINGS SURPLUS
WERE SPENT ON
IN EDUCATION,
FISHERMEN FOR
OF THIS ORGANISATION OF THE FISHING POPULATION PROMOTING THE WELL-BEING HEALTH AND WELFARE SERVICES, AND ON GRANTING LOANS TO PRODUCTIVE PURPOSES, SUCH AS MODERNISING THEIR VESSELS AND NAVIGATIONAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TO BOOST FISHING CAPABILITIES.
HOWEVER,
ILLEGAL WHOLESALING
OF MARINE
FISH,
INSTALLING
OFTEN
MASTERMINDED BY CRIMINAL OR TRIAD ELEMENTS, AND GONE ON FOR MANY YEARS AND HAD BECOME WORSE RECENTLY.
STIPULATED
PLACES WAS HIGH PRICES,
AT MEDIUM TO OF ABOUT $24 MILLION TO THE FISH
FISH SOLD ILLEGALLY OUTSIDE THE ESTIMATED TO BE 40,000 TONNES LAST YEAR RESULTING IN A LOSS OF REVENUE MARKETING ORGANISATION, MR WONG SAID.
ΤΟ THE ORGANISATION FOR THE RESULT WAS THAT FUNDS AVAILABLE
WELFARE SERVICES AND FOR PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL, HEALTH AND
MAKING FISHERMEN WERE VICTIMS LOANS WERE THUS CONSIDERABLY REDUCED AND THE OF SUCH ILLICIT TRADING.
"IN ADDITION, THE GENERAL CONSUMERS OF SEAFOOD HAVE TO PAY INFLATED AND MARKED-UP PRICES, DUE TO PROFITEERING ON THE PART OF SYNDICATES.".
UP
FOR
THE
WONG MR
SUGGESTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT STEP
PUBLICITY ARISING FROM TO EDUCATE FISHERMEN ABOUT THE UNDESIRABLE IMPLICATIONS WHOLESALE MARKETING OF THEIR CATCHES OUTSIDE
FISH THE DESIGNATED
ELEMENTS FOR MARKETS AND FROM THEIR COLLUSION WITH CRIMINAL OR TRIAD APPARENT, SHORT-TERM ADVANTAGES,
BY FISHERMEN FOR AND REPAYMENT TERMS TO THE FISHERMEN
FOR THE SYNDICATES
FINANCIAL
"SECONDLY, APPLICATION PROCEDURES FOR LOANS PRODUCTION REASONS SHOULD BE FURTHER SIMPLIFIED
EASIER, BE MADE
SO AS TO THEIR RELIANCE AWAY FROM
SHOULD
DIVERT
"
ASSISTANCE, HE SAID.
ENCOURAGE
OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES AND FURTHER
FISH MARKETS WOULD ALL POSSIBLE
THAT THE EXISTING WHOLESALE
ΤΟ ELIMINATE
MR WONG HOPED MANAGEMENT OF THE STREAMLINED IN A BID LOOPHOLES FOR SYNDICATED MALPRACTICES.
OPPORTUNITIES
JUDICIARY WOULD UNDERSTAND
HE ALSO HOPED THAT THE BACKGROUND OF THE BILL AND WOULD TAKE THE MAXIMUM OFFENCES UNDER THE ORDINANCE INTO CONSIDERATION ON CONVICTED OFFENDERS.
BE
AND
THE
FINES FOR VARIOUS WHEN IMPOSING FINES
PRESENTED BY HIM HON HO KAM-FAI TO ILLNESS; AND THAT HR
FINALLY, MR WONG POINTED OUT THAT THE VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT HAD IN FACT BEEN PUT TO HIM BY DR THE WHO WAS ABSENT FROM THE MEETING TODAY DUE AGREED WITH THESE VIEWS.
THE AND
HON PIERS
FISHERIES,
ARRANGE THE
APPROPRIATE
FISH
WINDING UP THE DEBATE, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, JACOBS, SAID HE WOULD ASK THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE IN HIS CAPACITY AS THE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, TO PUBLICITY AND TO
REVIEW THE PRECEDURES UNDER ORDINANCE IN THE LIGHT OF MR WONG'S SUGGESTIONS.
MARKETING
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