agriculture
Prosecutions relating to the illegal use of bright lights for fishing in Hong Kong waters soared last year, as authorities vowed again to step up patrols to combat the improper use of LED lamps to lure fish to the surface. There were 31 cases relating to the illegal use of bright light fishing activities that resulted in prosecution in 2023, a Marine Department (MD) spokesperson told HKFP by email on Monday, almost double the number of prosecutions over such activities in the previous four years, which stood at 17. Fishing with bright lights is permitted in parts of Hong Kong waters, but there...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong’s legislature has passed a bill that will raise the maximum penalty for feeding wild animals to a HK$100,000 fine and imprisonment for one year and expanded the ban to cover feral pigeons. The new law will take effect on August 1. The new penalty would better reflect the adverse impact and serious consequences of illegal feeding on wildlife, ecology and the public, Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan told lawmakers on Wednesday, when the Wild Animals Protection (Amendment) Bill 2023 was tabled for approval. Under the newly passed bill, the city’s ban on feeding wild an...
Hong Kong Free Press
Experts have warned against touching or feeding Hong Kong’s wild monkeys after a man wounded by macaques was left in a critical condition in the city’s first case of human B virus infection. According to a Centre for Health Protection (CHP) statement issued Wednesday, the 37-year-old “with good past health” was admitted to Yan Chai Hospital on March 21 with a fever and “decreased level of consciousness,” and was receiving treatment in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. He had been wounded by wild macaques during a visit to Kam Shan Country Park – known colloquially as Monkey Mountain – in lat...
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