Shugaban Palau ya ce shawarar da ya yanke na ayyana yankin tattalin arzikin kasarsa na musamman a matsayin mafakar shark zai taimaka wa bil'adama da kuma masana'antar yawon shakatawa na Palau.
A cikin jawabinsa ga babban taron Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, Johnson Toribiong ya ayyana daukacin yankin tattalin arzikin kasarsa na musamman, mai fadin murabba'in kilomita dubu 629, ko kuma ya kai girman kasar Faransa a matsayin "wuri mai tsarki na shark," wanda zai haramta duk wani kamun kifi na kasuwanci.
Shugaba Toribiong ya ce yana fatan sauran kasashe za su bi hanyar Palau don kawo karshen kamun kifin da ya wuce kima, kifayen shark da kamun kifi mai lalata.
"Na sami wasiƙu da yawa [daga] a duk faɗin duniya, ciki har da ɗan Jacques Cousteau yana neman in kare sharks. Domin wani dan majalisar dattawa ya gabatar da kudirin doka don halasta kamun kifi a Palau kuma an kashe wannan kudirin bayan an yi ta kai ruwa rana. Kuma saboda haka, mahimmancin sharks ga tsarin halittu da kuma masana'antar yawon shakatawa, nutsewa, ya fuskanci barazanar kauracewa. Don haka na yi imanin abin da na yi ba don taimakon bil’adama ba ne kawai, amma don taimaka wa masana’antar yawon shakatawa tamu.”
Shugaba Johnson Toribiong ya ce kifayen rikon sakainar kashi na hana al'ummar yankin tekun Pasifik abubuwan rayuwa, abinci kuma zai zama rugujewar tattalin arzikin yankin.
ABUBUWAN DA ZA KU GUDU DAGA WANNAN LABARI:
- In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Johnson Toribiong declared his country's entire Exclusive Economic Zone, an area of 629 thousand square kilometers, or roughly the size of France as a “shark sanctuary,”.
- President Johnson Toribiong says reckless overfishing is depriving the people of the Pacific of their livelihoods, food and will be the ruin of the region's economic well-being.
- Because one senator introduced a bill to legalise the shark fishing in Palau and that bill was killed after much lobbying.
