The Department of Fisheries issued a warning and advisories to fish farmers to take proactive measures to prevent fish pond flooding.
Fish farming is being carried out across the country to ensure national food security and to generate foreign income through exports. The Department has issued guidelines to prevent fish ponds from being flooded due to excessive rain and river flooding, and to minimize losses of fish and shrimp farmers. The preventive measures include strengthening pond dykes by placing sandbags on thin or low-lying areas of the pond walls, reinforce them with nets to prevent fish from escaping when the water level rises, filing sandbags and putting bamboo railing in fish farms that lie next to water currents from erosion, and placing sandbags as reinforcement, preparing fishing nets, motorboats, and equipment in advance to relocate fish if necessary, giving priority to larger fish in relocation, moving stored fish feed and other supplies to higher ground above water level, keeping the fish from escaping with regular feeding, monitoring possible inundated places that are vulnerable to flooding and the condition of fish ponds and arranging communication method to promptly report any unusual cases.
Furthermore, fish farmers need to stay alert for emergency weather warnings broadcast on state-owned radio stations. They need to regularly read daily newspapers for weather warnings. Fish farmers need to exchange information with other farmers. They can ask for help from the nearest Fisheries Department in emergency cases, the Fisheries Department under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation warned.
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