Syria exerts efforts to protect and boost fishing
Syria, Economics, 4/16/2005

A report by SANA warned on Friday against risks and challenges confronting the fishery resources in Syria and the danger of its disappearance from 180 km of Syrian coast line on the Mediterranean.

The report said the cause of this situation is the so called "inequitable fishing," which means using the metal cages or baskets to collect the fish or the use of dynamite that kills the use of fish nets and affects the naval environment.

Studies of the Syrian coast productivity have unveiled that it is low to an extent that does not allow the fishing of more than 2000 tones annually and the ministry of agriculture reconsidered naval fishing by limiting the number of ships in the sea to 1850 ships.

"Halting the deterioration in the naval environment and the fish store size in the regional water of Syria is constituting a high priority that should not be neglected," an expert in the field of fish protection researches told SANA.

He noted this is to achieve the rational management of fish resources in a way that guarantees its continuity and keeps the fishermen daily bred.

The government has put a national action strategy, to protect the environment, accredited by the ministers council presidency and the higher council to protect the environment.

The expert noted that upon the application of the decision to prevent the inequitable fishing, new kinds of fish and naval animals started to appear in the Syrian regional water like the big sea turtle that appeared a year ago on the Syria coast.

The ministry of agriculture has built a natural reserve on the region of Ras Bin Hani on the northwestern corner of the Syrian coast as the first step to build a series of naval reserves on the Syrian coast.

There are other studies to establish a reserve in the Oum al-Toyor region near Lattakia, the main port in Syria.

"Investing the natural sea water in breeding fish is a main target we work to maintain, as to soften pressure on the natural sea resource of fish. Another aim is to provide a natural product of fish to make a food balance in the Syrian citizens daily meals," the expert said.

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