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Commercial fishery assessment of Malaysian water offshore structure

  • Mohd, Mohd Hairil (Offshore Engineering Research Interest Group, Maritime Technology Program, Faculty of Ocean Engineering Technology and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu) ;
  • Thiyahuddin, Mohd Izzat Mohd (PETRONAS Research Sdn. Bhd. (PRSB), Facilities of the Future) ;
  • Rahman, Mohd Asamudin A (Offshore Engineering Research Interest Group, Maritime Technology Program, Faculty of Ocean Engineering Technology and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu) ;
  • Hong, Tan Chun (Offshore Engineering Research Interest Group, Maritime Technology Program, Faculty of Ocean Engineering Technology and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu) ;
  • Siang, Hii Yii (Offshore Engineering Research Interest Group, Maritime Technology Program, Faculty of Ocean Engineering Technology and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu) ;
  • Othman, Nor Adlina (Offshore Engineering Research Interest Group, Maritime Technology Program, Faculty of Ocean Engineering Technology and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu) ;
  • Rahman, Azam Abdul (PETRONAS Research Sdn. Bhd. (PRSB), Facilities of the Future) ;
  • Rahman, Ahmad Rizal Abdul (PETRONAS Research Sdn. Bhd. (PRSB), Facilities of the Future) ;
  • Fitriadhy, Ahmad (Offshore Engineering Research Interest Group, Maritime Technology Program, Faculty of Ocean Engineering Technology and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu)
  • Received : 2022.01.11
  • Accepted : 2022.08.16
  • Published : 2022.09.30
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Abstract

To have a better understanding of the impact of the PETRONAS oil and gas platform on commercial fisheries activities, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) examined two approaches which are data collection from satellite and data collection from fishermen and anglers. By profiling the anglers who utilize reefed oil and gas structures for fishing, it can determine if the design and location of the reef platforms will benefit or negatively impacts those anglers and fisherman. Furthermore, this assessment will be contributing to the knowledge regarding the value of offshore oil and gas platforms as fisheries resources. Collectively, the apparent fishing activity data included, combined with the findings in the reefing viability index will help to inform PETRONAS's future decommissioning decisions and may help determine if the design and proposed locations for future rigs-to-reefs candidates would benefit commercial fishing groups, further qualifying them as appropriate artificial reef candidates. The method applied in this study is approaching by using a data satellite known as Google's Global Fishing Watch technology, which is one of the applications to measure commercial fishing efforts around the globe. The apparent commercial fishing effort around the selected twelve PETRONAS platforms was analyzed from January 2012 to December 2018. Using the data collection from fishermen which is the total estimation of commercial fish value cost (in Malaysia ringgit, MYR [RM]) in Peninsular Malaysia Asset, Sabah Asset, and Sarawak Operation region. The data were extracted every month from 2016 to 2018 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration database. Most of the selected platforms that show a high frequency of vessels around the year are platform KP-A, platform BG-A and platform PL-B. The estimated values of commercial fishes varied between platforms, with ranged from RM 10,209.92 to RM 89,023.78. Thus, platforms with high commercial fish value are selected for reefing in-situ and will serve multi-purposes and benefit the locals as well as the country. The current study has successfully assessed the potential reefing area of the Malaysian offshore environment with greater representativeness and this paper focused on its potential as a new fishing ground.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to express sincere gratitude to PETRONAS for sponsoring the project via research grant.

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