Thousands of dead fish found in Dubai’s waters

Dubai’s coast guard units have stumbled across thousands of dead fish in the emirate’s waters and the fishermen’s association believes banned fishing methods are behind this marine massacre.




The Dubai-based Emirat Alyoum Arabic language daily carried a two-minute film on Monday showing dead fish were plucked by an association boat in an area extending around half a mile in Boya Zahra west of Dubai.



“We have received information from the coast guard they have found thousands of dead fish in that area…these fish are considered among the best marine animals and we believe they have been subjected to banned fishing ways by some boats,” the association’s chairman Mohammed Al Marri said.



“We sent a boat to verify the report and found many types of Tuna fish, which we call Al Sadda, have perished...the Ministry of Environment and the Dubai Municipality have launched an investigation into this problem.”



Marri said the investigation would reveal how this “massacre” happened, adding that it could have been a result of new fishing techniques carried by special boats, of which six are believed to be in Dubai and two in Sharjah.