Fisheries wealth ministry to ration traditional fishing in coming

SANA'A, Feb. 06 (Saba)- Ration of traditional fishing is one of
priorities of the ministry for coming period, Deputy Minister of
Fisheries Wealth Abdul-Hadi al-Khadar told 26 September weekly.

The weekly made an interview with the deputy minister in which he
said that the fisheries experts forms 13.2 percent of non-oil
experts, adding that the statistics show that the fisheries reserve
is around 850,000 tons.

Some 65,000 people are fishermen and fisheries sector creates around
2,890 jobs yearly, he said.

He made it clear that there are three tuna factories at capacities
of 30 million cans per year.AH