Fishermen’s conditions deteriorate [Archives:2002/46/Local News]

A fieldwork has confirmed that round 3000 fishermen have been negatively affected by the latest incident of the French Oil supertanker, Limburg on 6 October.
Information resources said that the overall operating boats and vessels along the coastlines extended from the Thaghr Shehr to al-Maghalla in Hadhramout governorate have been totaling 1794.
These boats have become incapable of fishing due to the buoyant oil, which have been still floating on the seawaters. The catastrophe has killed so many of the sea animals including fish, which is considered to be one the main subsistence of the fishermen there.
The fishermen have bitterly complained about the ignorance of the bodies concerned in getting rid of the oil-contaminated waters. This has led to disappearance of the majority of the fish wealth.
According to 2001statistics that around 18 million kg. of different fish were produced at the cost of YR 800 million per a year.

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