渔农场游览 Fish Farm Excursion by boat @ off 吉膽島 Pulau Ketam

16.10.2017 Tour
@ 渔农场游览 Fish Farm Excursion by boat off 吉膽島 Pulau Ketam (click to Google Map)
鱼农场和鱼酒店游 Fish Farm and Fish Hotel Boat Trip $16 (1.5 hours)
浮羅吉膽"綠之旅"旅遊服務 Greenway Tour Services
Lot 4, Jalan Merderka, 42940, Pulau Ketam, Selangor
Highlights: Fish Farm Tour, Fishing Hotel
Thoughts: Joining a family of 4 strangers, we paid for an excursion boat trip to a fish farm and fish hotel off Pulau Ketam via a small boat. It is $15 per person with minimum 6 people, since there are 5 of us, we have to pay the minimum fees of $80 and therefore only $16 per head. The boat trip from Ketam Jeti to the fish farm is 15 minutes 1 way. Total tour time is 90 minutes. (So, actual tour time is 60 minutes with 30 minutes on the boat)!  

Review: 6 / 10 👍😋
Excursion time: 12:30am to 02:00pm

The Tour company called "Greeway Tour Services" is located at Jalan Merdeka. Just 2-3 minutes from the Jeti, can't missed it as you must past the little hut (where the shop is) before going further into inner roads of Pulau Ketam.

 

I think the Fish Farm owner manages the Tour itself, he owns both the fish farm as well as the fishing hotel at sea as well as the tour company to his businesses! Acoompanying him are two teenagers who help out in the boat.

 

It took around 15 minutes from Pulau Ketam Jeti to the "Kelongs". We were greeted by at least 3 dogs, dogs are a necessity in Kelongs to guard the fish farm from intruders who come to steal fish! The dogs diet are fish ! 

So, the owner starts explaining about his fish farm and I think he said he farms 4 types fish or any fish which can make money. So at present, it is the 龙胆鱼 "Long Dan Fish" which can go up to 5 or 6 feet which can sell few thousand ringgit per head and all for export to Hong Kong or elsewhere (Yup, I saw them and its really BIG). Another fish is 石斑鱼 "Siakap", 红枣鱼 "Golen Snapper", and the 4th one don't remember now! He continues to explain how he setup his business and how difficult fish farming is and current environmental impacts to the Kelongs at Pulau Ketam, bla bla ... I listened to most of it but it was really a very hot at noon time to be listening to lecture! 

Finishing the fish farm, another 15 minutes of boat ride to his fishing hotel.

The Fishing Hotel is where one can rent a room here, do some fishing at night or early morning and barbeque your catch on the spot. I hear that the nights are very cooling here. I would say quite a clean setup, they also have place for malay prayers. 

Thats it for the tour, and another 15 minutes of boat trip back to the Pulau Ketam Island.