Fisheries Dept replanting seagrass in Mersing for dugong conservation

The Department of Fisheries (DOF) is replanting seagrass as part of conservation efforts in Pulau Tinggi and Pulau Sibu, Mersing, which are dugong grazing areas and habitats.

DOF deputy director-general of fisheries (management) Wan Muhammad Aznan Abdullah said the department’s experts were working in collaboration with public universities to further attract the presence of these mammals on the two islands, which have been gazetted as marine parks.