Somalia fines 30 Yemen's for illegal fishing
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Tuesday March 30, 2021 - 11:20:00 in Latest News by Staff Reporter
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MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) - Thirty Yemeni Fishermen arrested this this week while illegally fishing within the country's territorial waters in the Indian Ocean were presented before a court in Galkayo on Tuesday.
According SONNA, the state-owned, the men who confessed that they were exploiting Somali marine resources illegally have been fined 700 each for fishing illegally in Somalia’s waters.
According SONNA, the state-owned, the men who confessed that they were exploiting Somali marine resources illegally have been fined 700 each for fishing illegally in Somalia’s waters.
Galmudug coastguard forces had arrested the sailors three days ago along the coastal areas of Hobyo district.
The ruling comes days after Somali government announced that late last year, 37 Egyptian flagged or operated trawlers were sighted fishing illegally within the 24 nm & 12 nm, areas reserved for Somali vessels and coastal communities.
Mid last year, the Ministry of Fisheries sent stern warning over 100 Iranian vessels which reportedly carried out fishing illegally in Somali waters between January 2019 and April this year.
"Between January 2019 to 14 April 2020, approximately 112 Iranian fishing vessels were identified transmitting on automatic identification system (AIS) transponders from within the Somalia EEZ for a total of 2533 days,” the ministry said in report issued last year.
A further 83 AIS net markers were also linked to Iran, the Ministry said noting at least 192 vessels have been operating illegally inside the Somalia and Yemen EEZ.
A report by the campaign group Secure Fisheries in 2017 said up to 2.4 million tones of fish have been caught in Somali waters illegally in the last 60 years.
Somalia formally licensed 31 Chinese fishing vessels in November 2018 at a cost of $2.5 million under the new fisheries law.
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Somalia fines 30 Yemen's for illegal fishing
MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) - Thirty Yemeni Fishermen arrested this this week while illegally fishing within the country's territorial waters in the Indian Ocean were presented before a court in Galkayo on Tuesday.