Capital fish farms to relocate
17 January 2019 | 10:08 ICT
Owners of fish farms in Boeung Samrong lake located in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district have been ordered to leave by the municipal authority.

The Phnom Penh authority on Monday issued a notice ordering the owners of fish farms in the lake to move within “10 days from the date of letter issuance”.

The district authority said: “In the past, the lake was disrupted by a dam which made it drier and smaller. It could no longer be able to serve its functions. The authority hopes that everybody would work with the Phnom Penh administration to restore Boeung Samrong effectively.”

Prek Pnov district governor Huot Leap Piseth said farm owners are to follow the order accordingly.

“Owners who have big fish must sell all of it, whereas, for small fish breeders, they must contact Prek Pnov district authority to solve the issue,” he said.

Sub-decree 65 dated June 9, 2008, indicated that the 336ha Boeung Samrong lake, situated in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district, is state property. It has been under the management of Prek Pnov district authority since 2014.
[*Boeung Samrong lake is situated in Kandal province but managed by Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov district authority.]
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Do they mean State Public Property or State Private Property ?


the 336ha Boeung Samrong lake, situated in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district, is state property. It has been under the management of Prek Pnov district authority since 2014.

Why would the kick the fish farmers out? Re development,giving it to "someone" or cleaning up the lake?

All the fish farms on the way to Oudong are gone now and the lake filled in.

January 24, 2019
Fish breeders ignore deadline to remove enclosures from lake

Some fish breeders along Boeng Samrong lake in Prek Pnov district have ignored a ten-day deadline to remove their enclosures and artificial ponds.

On January 14, district authorities issued a statement that they decided to designate the 336-hectare lake as a reservoir as part of flood management plans in Phnom Penh and nearby provinces.

The statement said officials would be sent to rehabilitate parts of the lake which have become shallower following encroachments by people who dug up land surrounding it to create fish ponds.

“In order to process the restoration of the lake smoothly, the authorities require all residents to remove their fish breeding enclosures and ponds within ten days from the date this statement is issued,” it said.

Cheng Sovannara, 57, who owns a fish breeding enclosure, yesterday said he will protest and demand compensation when authorities come to remove his property.

Sim Sophang, district administration chief, yesterday said that officials will start to restore Boeng Samrong lake today even if some villagers ignore the deadline to remove their fish breeding enclosures.

“Today is the deadline for them to remove their fish breeding enclosure by themselves,” he said. “We are going to work to restore the lake and if they do not remove them we are not responsible for damaging their belongings.”
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