The Environmental Compliance Department of the Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment, in collaboration with Dubai Municipality, confiscated 1.7 tons of fish caught in violation of the fishing regulations and regulations during its surprise inspection tour of Dubai's waterfront market, .
The tour is part of a series of field visits carried out by the Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment to audit environmental, agricultural, animal and fishery facilities and to strengthen the inspection and control initiative to ensure efficient enforcement of federal legislation in cooperation with relevant 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, and ministerial decision No. (500) Was carried out at the time of implementation of the tour, and the inspectors of the seafront market confiscated the infringing fish, which amounted to a total weight of 1730 kg, and was recorded data of fish (the transfer) and fishing boats and fish transport vehicles in violation of the violation of violations, and the fish were confiscated to a number of charities to distribute to Poor families.
The ministry emphasizes the need to abide by the ministerial decisions issued to preserve the strategic stock of fish wealth and ensure its sustainability. The ministry has issued a number of ministerial decisions related to fishing regulation in order to achieve its strategic objectives of promoting food safety and sustainability of local production, 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 noteworthy that the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment issued Ministerial Decision No. 43 of 2019 on the regulation of fishing and shark trade, which replaces Ministerial Resolution No. 500 of 2014 on 1 March 2019.
The Ministry confirmed in a press statement yesterday that it 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.