tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283845125208268798.post4041431105394078534..comments2024-03-27T11:21:40.742+04:00Comments on Muscat Confidential: Oman running out of fish?Undercover Dragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577931944980469254noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283845125208268798.post-25314762012899911622008-03-04T03:48:00.000+04:002008-03-04T03:48:00.000+04:00Hi, are any of these fishing companies owned by mi...Hi, are any of these fishing companies owned by ministers by any chance? Hmmm?<BR/><BR/>I's be interested to know where you got the stats from please. I'm looking to do my dissertation on Urban Renewal in Muscat bu have been unable to find anything.<BR/><BR/>Merci beacoupAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283845125208268798.post-41478639653323037892008-02-24T22:21:00.000+04:002008-02-24T22:21:00.000+04:00I work with some fish exporters and 2007 has been ...I work with some fish exporters and 2007 has been a horrible year. Forget about all those years when there's been massive amounts of Omani fish that find their way to export markets while Oman's fish market is kept empty, in the past year the catch has simply disappeared. The evil trawlers have left Oman's shores and went elsewhere because they don't fish here in large quantities anymore. Some of the large fish suppliers have been importing fish for months, long before the ministry's announcement.<BR/><BR/>I don't think Oman ever had enough fish for it to be considered a natural resource. Whatever we had has been mismanaged and squandered. Whoever was the minister at the time got himself a lot of credit bringing trawlers. The trawlers' agents made lots of money. The government made money selling fishing rights. Now the fish are gone, the trawlers are gone, we're left importing fish, and the current minister of fisheries has a huge mess on his hands. Unlike those who were their before him, he has to actually come up with a solution. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.muscatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955758251080080159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283845125208268798.post-56813512718701169822008-02-24T01:54:00.000+04:002008-02-24T01:54:00.000+04:00There are many new ways of replishing stock to the...There are many new ways of replishing stock to the ocean. Texas A&M, N.C.State and other southern universities in USA have research on growing many ocean fish fingerlings either right on the ocean front using sea water, or inland using fresh water. It is being done in Israel.<BR/>If it is done inland, you can even grow 'chemical free', 'soil-less' vegetables of high quality, simulaneously.Sustainable Peoples' Agriculturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412085821315753213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283845125208268798.post-2851664615558845072008-02-19T16:13:00.000+04:002008-02-19T16:13:00.000+04:00Bravo!!!I agree, it's rediculous that we ever sold...Bravo!!!<BR/><BR/>I agree, it's rediculous that we ever sold off our fisheries to foreign trawlers. Also rediculous is how much of our catch caught by locals makes it's way up to Dubai, where I gather the price is much higher. <BR/><BR/>We should be treating the fish as a natural resource, like we treat oil. The beauty of the fish resource = if the fishery is managed properly, it's a resource that will be with us in 200 years, long after the last drop of oil has gone.Suburbanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05722800832006632216noreply@blogger.com