ON
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1989
DISTRICT WITH THE STRONG SUPPORT FROM THE POLICE AND THE LOCAL
ACTIVE CO-OPERATION OF THE OFFICE, THESE NEW MEASURES HAVE WON THE MARKET USERS, INCLUDING BOTH THE FISHERMEN AND THE BUYER ASSOCIATION, HE SAID.
"SINCE THEN ORDER IN THE ABERDEEN FISH MARKET HAS BEEN GREATLY 17 INVOLVING A IMPROVED AND THERE HAS BEEN ONLY ONE ARREST ON MARCH WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH COMMON ASSAULT."
HAD RESULTED IN SOME MR BENNETT NOTED THAT THE NEW MEASURES
IN THROUGHPUT AND
AVERAGE BOTH IN INCREASES
THE EIGHT PER CENT WHOLESALE PRICE COMPARED WITH THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD IN 1988.
OF
THESE INCREASES, HOWEVER, HAVE NOT AFFECTED THE FISH PRICES
THAT THIS
THE REPRESENTED
PROFITS THE RETAIL LEVEL, AND IT SEEMED PREVIOUSLY POCKETED BY THE TRIADS THROUGH THE MALPRACTICES AT THE FISH MARKET.
POLICE HAD MR BENNETT POINTED OUT THAT HIS DEPARTMENT AND THE
ILLEGAL IN CURTAILING
MARKETING ALSO STEPPED UP ENFORCEMENT ACTION
OTHER PARTS OF ABERDEEN, ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE FISH MARKET AND IN PARTICULARLY IN THE TYPHOON SHELTER.
HAD
67 ARRESTS BEEN WERE LATER FINED
THE IN $47,700. A
THERE IN 1988, HE SAID THAT ABERDEEN AREA INVOLVING 79 PEOPLE, WHO TOTAL OF 19 TONNES OF FISH WERE CONFISCATED.
CASES "SO FAR THIS YEAR, MR BENNETT SAID, "THERE HAVE BEEN 12
HEARING. 13 OF SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTIONS WITH ANOTHER 4 CASES AWAITING
HAVE PERSONS HAVE BEEN FINED A TOTAL OF $6,500 AND 1.2 TONNES OF FISH BEEN SEIZED."
HE DISCLOSED
CONTINUING THAT AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S
PLANS WERE IN EFFORTS TO IMPROVE MARKETING ORDER IN THE FMO MARKETS,
FISH HAND TO INTRODUCE A SIMILAR SCHEME AT THE SHAU KEI WAN WHOLESALE MARKET WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
THE WHOLESALE "IT IS HOPED THAT APART FROM IMPROVING ORDER AT
THE SALES MARKET, THE SCHEME WILL SERVE THE PURPOSES OF REGULATING
MARKETING AT THE ALDRICH OF FISH FOR EXPORT AND CURTAILING ILLEGAL BAY TYPHOON SHELETER AND LEI YUE MUN AREA," MR BENNETT ADDED.
SPEAKING AT THE SAME CEREMONY,
MURPHY, DIVISIONAL VERY IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE PRESS FOR THEIR
FRANCIS MR COMMANDER, ABERDEEN SAID THAT PUBLICITY WAS A OF THE
OPERATION
AND THANKED
CO-OPERATION IN THIS REGARD.
MEMBERS
HE SAID A LESSON TO BE LEARNED FROM THE OPERATION WAS
ANYONE ASKED FOR ASSISTANCE TO WOULD PROVIDE IT.
COUNTER TRIAD ACTIVITY,
THAT IF THE POLICE
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