The Environmental Compliance Department of the Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment, in cooperation with Dubai Municipality, confiscated 1.7 tons of fish caught in violation of the fishing regulations and regulations during its surprise inspection tour of the waterfront market in Dubai.
The tour is part of a series of field visits carried out by the Ministry for auditing the environmental, agricultural, animal and fishery facilities, and to strengthen the inspection and control initiative to ensure efficient enforcement of federal legislation, in cooperation with competent local government institutions.
During the inspection tour, a number of violations of Ministerial Resolution No. (580) for the year 2015 were observed concerning the prevention of fishing, sale and marketing of small sizes of fish with a length of less than the permitted limit. Ministerial Decision No. (500) for the year 2014 concerning the regulation of fishing and shark trade, At the time of implementation of the tour, the inspectors of the seafront market carried out the confiscation of infringing fish, which amounted to a total weight of (1730) kg and recorded the data of the shops (shops) and fishing boats and fish transport vehicles in violation of the violation of violations, and the fish were confiscated to a number of charities for distribution On the captured families Vvh.
The Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment stressed the need to abide by the ministerial decisions issued that will preserve the strategic stock of fish wealth and ensure its sustainability. The Ministry issued a number of ministerial decisions on fishing regulation in order to achieve its strategic objectives of enhancing food safety and sustainability of local production, Ministerial Resolution No. (580) for the year 2015 and Ministerial Resolution No. (500) for the year 2014, which was in force at the time of implementation of the round.
It is worth mentioning that the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment issued Ministerial Decision No. 43 of 2019 on Regulation of Shark Fishing and Trade, which replaces Ministerial Resolution No. 500 of 2014 on 1 March 2019.
The Ministry is keen to rehabilitate and train a group of auditors to conduct field visits for inspection and inspection according to the schedule of visits to the establishments concerned with the application of federal legislation governing the living aquatic resources, such as fish markets and major shops for selling fish in commercial centers, fishing boats, fish landing sites and fish import and export companies. With local and federal authorities related to living aquatic resources.