Thursday May 7, 2009

Dungun to be turned into seafood hub

KUALA TERENGGANU: The Terengganu government will develop Dungun as a seafood hub for tourism and commercial purposes in the East Coast Economic Region.

Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the district was selected because it was the state’s major fishing area.

“We want to make Dungun a centre for tourism and seafood based commercial products like crackers,” he told reporters after opening the Terengganu State Development Office here.

He said the state would streamline cracker production because the supply of fish-based food items was never enough to meet demands.

“Presently, we cannot even export crackers and can only meet local demand,“ he said. In view of this, the state will set up a factory in Dungun to process and pack quality crackers.

Ahmad said 1,000 fishermen from 100 villagers along the coast would benefit from various economic activities beginning this month. — Bernama