State Council committee reviews commercial fishing

Muscat: The Economic Committee of the State Council discussed on Wednesday the “Living Aquatic Resources Law”, referred by the Council of Ministers, and related Majlis Al Shura’s report.
The Committee, at its 12th meeting of the third annual sitting of the sixth term under the chair of Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Harthy, Head of the committee, reviewed the justification of the project and the desired objectives, the most important of which is regulating commercial fishing activity, exploiting fisheries in deep-sea and remote sea locations and in no way interfering with the interests of artisanal fishermen.
Follow-up report
The meeting was held in the presence of members of the committee and a number of officials of the Secretariat General.
During the meeting, the committee discussed the remarks of the members of the committee on some of the project articles that serve this activity. The committee also adopted the minutes of its previous meeting and reviewed the follow-up report on the implementation of the decisions taken thereon.