RIVER MAIN SOURCE OF PROTEIN FOR VILLAGERS.

DAP- MIRI- On behalf of YB Alan Ling,  YB Fong Pau Teck, so sorry and worry about the quality of rivers and streams in Sarawak. Many years back when was still schooling at my villager at Ulu Baram in the year of  70's and 80's the river of Baram not yet contaminated. All the small streams at Ulu Baram was still clear and clean. The activities that we used to do when we were still young boy was went for fishing, snogelling and picnic. We enjoying ourselves by going for  picnic, bathing, eating some fish that we caught.
In the year of  1990's, the river of Baram started to mud and contaminated by the timber activities.All the rivers in Sarawak are muddy and contaminated. In Sarawak there many rivers like Sg.Sarawak, Rajang, Sadong, Limbang, Tinjar, Baleh, Balaga, Bakong and many other more that not written here.All the rivers are contaminated and hardly be used for the purpose of daily used.
When the river is contaminated and muddy the less fish can be found. Along the those rivers there are so many villagers and the river main source of protein for them.But now compare to those are the days we can easily go and  caught fish, to our suprise the whole day we go for fishing we can caught more than half a kilo.The reason why the fishes are less because of the contaminated water. For long term, the fish might not healthy for the villagers and might cause all kinds of illness and diseases.
What cause these rivers contaminated and muddy are Timber activities, oil Palm plantations, and trees plantations.These are the primarily cause of the rivers muddy and contaminated. There are some other activity that might cause the fish becoming less is poisoning the fish and this poison they can buy in the town.
The government should do something to protect all the rivers in Sarawak. Is there any enforcement rule for the activities that had happened.Compensation should be given to those who involed in illegal activities. These plantations used all kinds faterlizers and gramozens for their plantation.The government should monitar and send enforcement group to check on them. The government should look into the people's healthy environment.