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Fishermen strike against nylon net banJumbo Meed fish found, EPA blames pollutionMervat AbduldayemStaff Writer

KUWAIT: The measures taken by the Pub-lic Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) against fishermen have paralyzed the fish market. The fishermen re-sponded to the PAAAFR ban against fishing with nylon nets by going on a strike and sus-pending all fishing activities. This has led to a hike in the prices of fish; the price of Al-Zubei-di has reached nine Kuwaiti dinars per kilo, the price of Hammour KD 6.5 per kilo, and the price of a basket of shrimps KD 75.

Secretary of the Fishermen’s Union Zaher Al-Souyan announced that the PAAAFR ban on nylon nets was issued in 2004, but the de-cision was applied a few days ago as a result of the appointment of a new board. The new board called on fishermen to use other mate-rials and banned fishing for Zubeidi, Sabour, and Nuweibi, among other fish. Al-Souyan criticized the authority for banning the use of nylon nets for fishing while permitting the im-port of fish from countries that allow the use these nets. He asserted that this contradicts the terms of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) agreement banning their fishermen from using nylon nets.

He demanded that the officials find a solu-tion to the issue, in addition to finding a better accommodation for the fishermen to live, since their current flats are dirty and infested with insects.

Deputy Head of the union Khaled Al-Enezi criticized the authority for seizing the licenses of the fishermen and asking the owners of fish-ing ships to deport the fishermen if they want their licenses back.

In other news, Jumbo Meed fish has been found in Kuwaiti waters, and is being sold in local fish markets here in Kuwait.

An official at the Environment Public Authority (EPA) explained that this is not a miracle but simply the natural product of sew-age water running off into the sea, and with so much organic substances being poured into the water, it would inevitably lead to abnormal sized fish.

He revealed that for the past year, the Min-istry of Public Works has been dumping sew-age water into the sea, but not before treating it with different chemical and biological ma-terials.

Remarkably, not only has the size of the fish changed, but also the very shape of it. The source revealed that an initial analysis of a sample of seawater indicated that large amounts of protein and hormones were found, and that these have led to the abnormal en-largement of the size of the fish and in par-ticular the Meed. One distinctive feature that was found by fishermen and fish vendors is the amount of fat in Meed, something which this particular fish never had before.

The source explained that unlike many other types of fish, the habitat of the Meed is typically near the shore, as it prefers shallow water. He went on to say that there is a strong possibility that in the future such abnormality would lead to serious diseases because of the unusual amount of hormones involved.

The sea has been used as a dumping pit for quite a while now, and with the intensive use of chlorine in this country, seawater has become characteristically chlorified, said the

source. He went on to say that they are not talking about the amount of chlorine used by the public but the inordinate amount dumped by the Ministry of Public Works into the sea for the purpose of killing bacteria.

This has been demonstratively visible to the naked eye because every time a wave passes, a huge amount of foam is unnecessar-ily created, he said.

The source is not optimistic by any ac-count. He explained that even if the Mishref sewage plant is fixed, the seawater, along with the basin, needs delicate cleaning, because by now there are layers of sediments caused and formed by the unnatural materials and sub-stances.

The source was adamant that unless an overhaul cleaning job is done, the water will remain filthy as evident by the color of the rocks, which are now black.

Manager of the Matriculate and Fisheries Department at Kuwait Institute for Scientific

Research (KISR) Dr. Sulaiman Al-Matar reject-ed the theory that the quality of water in Ku-waiti maritime territory has been polluted to such an alarming state, and that the Meed was of a different shape and size. He believes that unless comprehensive studies and researches are carried out to find the reasons, no one can determine the causes. He further argued that proper studies take a minimum of three years to be able to pass any reliable scientific judg-ment, not by a mere hypotheses.

“Besides, we all know that the Meed is a migrant fish and comes from the southern part of the Arabian Gulf and then makes his detour back to his habitat. Therefore, unless a proper and adequate scientific study is car-ried out, there is no point theorizing on new sizes or different shapes of fish. After all, there might be a fourth type of Meed that never sur-faced in Kuwaiti waters before, so it would be appropriate not to jump to conclusions,” he explained.

Fishermen refusing to board their boats as a sign of protest to the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources for banning the use of nylon nets, despite importing fish from countries that do, on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. (Al Watan)

GCC’s 26th meeting discusses Green initiative, sustainable development

KUWAIT: Participants in the first session of the 26th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) environmental coordination committee meet-ing discussed on Sunday here a number of key issues, mainly the GCC Green initiative and sustainable development.

During the session, outcomes of the third committee meeting of the initiative, as well as recommendations of the 25th GCC envi-ronmental coordination committee meeting, were discussed. The initiative is seen as of the most significant in relation to the Gulf envi-ronmental framework. Other topics discussed included concerned regional and internation-al agreements; such as the ones on preserving wildlife, biological diversity and protection of falcons, in addition to accords on climate change and the Ozone layer.

Director General of the Environment Public Authority (EPA) in Kuwait Dr. Salah Al-Mudhi said the meeting’s first session fo-cused on three main issues; the ‘Green’ initia-tive, approving the GCC general secretariat to participate in UN agreements on climate change, protection of the Ozone layer, de-sertification and biological diversity as a su-pervisor, and lastly showcasing the GCC’s achievements in the domain of protecting the Ozone layer.

Al-Mudhi, in a speech marking the com-mencement of the committee meeting earlier today, said efforts exerted by GCC countries to protect the environment would contribute in bringing points of view closer, as the meet-ing is a prelude to the 14th GCC ministerial meeting for the environment.

The ministerial meeting is due on Tuesday in Kuwait, with the Minister of Commerce and Industry Ahmad Al-Haroun representing the Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Chairman of the Higher Council of the Envi-ronment Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Pointing out to Kuwait’s keenness on protecting marine life, especially after being hit with a range of intoxicants within the last three decades, Al-Mudhi said EPA brought experts from the World Bank to come up with an assessment to rehabilitate marine life in Kuwait and the GCC waters.

Finally, He hoped for more progress to be attained in the future in order to limit dete-rioration of natural resources, advising all to cooperate with the GCC general secretariat in order to complement environmental action within the Gulf region. -KUNA

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Have small

mullets turned

plus sized?KUWAIT: Several years ago,Kuwait had experienced aunique phenomenon in whichfish began dying in its waters enmasse. Tons of fish, namely thesmall mullet variety (locallyknown as “maid”) were killed,reported Al-Watan. It notedthat, Kuwait is experiencing adifferent incident with regard tothe same species of fish. Officials from the

Environment Public Authority(EPA) said that small mulletshave doubled in size, at analarming rate, by storing moreoil in their bodies. Officialsexplained that the species’began doubling in size followingthe Mishref sewage waterspillage incident. Enormousamounts of sewage water wasdumped in the sea, increasingthe amount of organic nourish-ment available to small mulletsthat thrive near the shallowwaters. Officials added thatsome fish had changed in shapeas well, which calls for conduct-ing large-scale studies to probethe negative impact of a drasticchange. Furthermore, officials also

asserted that the chlorine levelshad increased in the sea as theMinistry of Public Works hadbeen using to treat sewagewater, ‘The problem lies notonly in the genetic make-up ofsome varieties of fish, thewater’s chemical compositiontoo has altered, turning intoswamp-like ponds,’ officialswarned. While Mohammed Al-

Eraifan, Chairman of KuwaitFishermen Union, confirmedthat mullets were expanding insize, Dr Sulaiman Al-Mutar,Manager of Fish Farming andFish Resources Department,Kuwait Institute for ScientificResearch denied the existencesuch a phenomenon and assert-ed that mullets were still in nor-mal sizes and that such a ‘thing’was not likely to happen. Kuwaiti University’s Marine

Sciences expert, Dr Salem Al-Muhanna rejected the idea thatfish would get any larger. Yet,he stressed that it wouldrequire at least three years toarrive at a sound scientific judg-ment after conducting extensivestudies, ‘The oversized ‘maid’could be a new type of mulletsthat migrated to Kuwaiti watersfrom elsewhere,’ he underlined.

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ينظم معهد الكويت لألبحاث العلمية، بالتعاون مع معهد الصناعة الــمــعــلــومــاتــيــة الــتــايــوانــي غـــدا الـــثـــالثـــاء، ورشــــة عــمــل عــلــمــيــة بعنوان "التطبيقات الحديثة لتكنولوجيا المعلومات والتقنيات الصديقة للبيئة والــطــاقــة"، يشارك فيها نخبة من الباحثين والمختصين في مجال تكنولوجيا المعلومات واالتصاالت والتقنيات البيئية، وذلك

تحت رعاية مديره العام د. ناجي المطيري.وشددت مديرة مشروع تطوير النظم المعلوماتية في المعهد ومنسقة الورشة الخنساء الحسيني على أهمية ما أحدثته االبتكارات التقنية في مجالي الصناعة المعلوماتية وتكنولوجيا االتصاالت من تسهيل عملية التفاعل واالتــصــال بين الناس في جميع أنحاء العالم، األمر الذي جعلها عنصرا أساسيا من عناصر التطوير والنمو االقتصادي، مشيرة إلى أن العديد من الــدول تسعى إلى تبني مثل هذه التقنيات في المجاالت الحكومية والتعليمية وقطاع األعمال والنقل وغيرها، ومن هنا تأتي أهمية هذا التعاون العلمي المشترك بين معهد الكويت لألبحاث العلمية ومعهد الصناعة المعلوماتية التايواني في تنظيم ورشة عمل تستمر يومين في مقر المعهد بالشويخ والتي ستناقش

تكنولوجيا المعلومات والتقنيات الصديقة للبيئة والطاقة.وقــالــت الحسيني: "إن الــهــدف مــن إقــامــة الــورشــة هــو تــبــادل أحدث التقنيات في مجال تكنولوجيا المعلومات واالتصاالت والبيئة، إضافة إلى تبادل الخبرات المكتسبة وتحديد مسارات التعاون المستقبلي بين المعهدين في هذا المجال"، موضحة أن معهد الصناعة المعلوماتية الــتــايــوانــي يــعــد مــن الــمــعــاهــد الـــرائـــدة عالميا فــي مــجــال تكنولوجيا المعلومات واالتـــصـــاالت، ويعتبر مساهما رئيسيا فــي بــنــاء البنية

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