The Director of Fish Wealth Department at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Dehaimi, has said that action plan of the Ministry succeeded in protecting the strategic reserve of sea fish.
He said that under the action plan, MME issued a number of decisions to protect strategic reserve of fish like prohibiting overfishing, specifying sizes of fish to be caught.
“The decisions also banned hunting some fish in hatching period like king-fish. The main goal of the Fish Wealth Department was to protect the strategic reserve of fish in the sea. We succeeded in our action plan as it reflects positive results and we are working on it to make it safer,” Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Dehaimi told The Peninsula.
He said that Qatar achieved self-sufficiency in fresh fish production about 75 percent and 34 percent in other all types of fish including caned and frozen. “MME’s ongoing five-year strategic food security program will help Qatar to become almost self-sufficient in fresh fish production,” said Al Dehaimi.
To reduce the stress on strategic reserve of fish in sea, he said that projects of fish farming on floating cages were launched already. “The projects are being developed which will be functional very soon,” said Al Dehaimi. The Director also said supply and demand rule the market, the unfavourable weather affect fish catching thus pushing prices of fish upwards.
