Ablone Fisheries in Oman

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Outliney Introductiony Overfishingy Type of Overfishingy Managementy Problemsy Recommendations


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introductiony The Omani abalone is a marine shellfish animal known to

scientist as Haliotis mariae .

y Its located in the southern costs of Oman in 200 Km long

cost line extending from Mirbat to Shwaimiah.

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The number of abalone catch steadily declines= Overfishing


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Distributiony Most abalones are found off the Southern Hemisphere

coasts of

New ZealandSouth AfricaAustralia

y and off the Northern Hemisphere coasts of y W estern North America

Japan


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Types of Overfishingy Growth Overfishing= harvest fish when they are too small

y R ecruitment Overfishing= reduction of reproductive adult population


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Values (1000 R.O)in Oman

small

pelagic22%

Abalone5%Sharks

Rays&6%

Demersal17%

Largepelagic

38%

Crustaceans

12%

Total values(1000 R.O) in Dhofar

large pelagic12%

small pelagic9%

demersal27%shark & rays

3%

crustaceans15%

abalone34%


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P roduction and valuey T he decline in landing is due to the decline in stock for

several reasons , including increase in price , increase

in the number of , increase in effort(introducing thespeed boat), using flippers, reducing access andfishing time in lobster fisheries, high demand of haliotis mariae into the Asian market , destruction of the abalone habitat through wrong fishing practices ,breaking the law .


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ManagementR oyal ministerial decree 11/87: closed fishery fromfirst day of April to the last day of September every

year (open for 6 month).Decree 4/91: in addition to 1 the size less than 9cm isnot allowed.Decree 22/91 : abalone fished was closed for the all

year period.Decree 128/98 season was opened again from 15 of October to 14 of December(2 month)


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M onitoring stock and landingy F ishery monitoring and record-keeping involves the

the department of fishries logbooks , landing site visitsand export permission certificates.

y the monitoring is done by collecting data from diversthrough interviews and from landing and researchbiological sampling.


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D ata collection systemy T he ministry of agriculture and fisheries supplies the

traders with logbooks and requires them to completethem during the fishing season, then collect them atthe end of the season.

y the trader must provide data about catch weightlanded by each diver, price paid to the diver, fishingsite, plus other information about diving days, andnumber of divers.


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Th e regulation and rules for t h e

tradersy G et licenses for preparing storing and transporting

abalone.y

Keep all the archives that illustrate the movement of buyand sale during and after the season.y Label the export abalone packages.y Submit the archives at the end of the season.y Don't buy the abalone from divers without licenses.


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T he regulation and rules for the

diversy Get applicabl e licenses of abalo ne fisher ies.y Never work ou ts id e the se ason.

y 3 tones of abalo ne ou ts id e the se ason 75,000 R .O.y 3 tones of abalo ne du r ing the se ason 150,000 R .O.

y Never ca tch the un der size abalo ne (less th an 90 mm)

y 1 kg of small abalo ne 5 R .O.y 1 kg of bi g abalo ne 50 R .O.


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Probl ems o n a b a lo ne managementy L ack of i n forma t iony lac k of eff ect i ve en forcem ent of the lawy lac k of commu n ica t ion bet ween ma n agem ent

au th or ity an d the res ou rce user group sy lac k of job oppo rt un it iesy lac k of educa t io ns


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R ec o mmendati o nsy

F ishing season need to be reduced.y Continued prohibitation of use of any kind of divig

gear.y Abalone habitat area that have been destroyed can be

improved during closing season.y Encouragement of investment in aquaculture abalone.y F ind markets for abalone shell.y establishment of a more effective system of training

and educationy strong cooperation should be established between

fisheries authorities and government departments


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