The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment issued a Ministerial Decree No. (468) of 2019 on the regulation of surface fishing by barber nets (hedging), permitting licensed fishermen under the type (trad) to fish surface fish using barber nets (hedging), and the decision in its article The second period allows the fishing of surface fish in this way during the period from 1 November to 30 April of the following year.

Halima Al Jasmi, Head of the Fisheries Department at the Ministry, said that the decision comes within the framework of the ministry's keenness to achieve its strategic objectives with regard to the sustainability of natural systems and the enhancement of living aquatic resources and the sustainability of local production, and aims to regulate surface fishing by barber fishing nets. And give the opportunity for the growth of surface fish targeted in this way, such as knitters and domes to reach sizes that benefit from their market value and food for the benefit of consumers as a nutritional value, and enhance the financial benefit of fishermen from the fishing profession to offset their operating expenses Fishing lures and their costs for fishing equipment and tools.

Article 2 of the resolution specifies the specifications of the nets used in fishing according to the area in which they will be fishing. For the coast from Dubai to Ras Al Khaimah, and for the fishing area on the east coast of the state, the length of the nets must not exceed 1100 meters, and not more than 28 meters wide, The specifications of nets for cinnamon and other pelagic fish conform to the specifications of the first fishing area.

In its third article, the decree obliged fishermen to have a net thickness of one for each kit, to connect one end of the net to the boat, with a light mark on the other end of the net, and to have the cork pieces floating above the sea.

In its fourth article, the resolution prohibited the use of nylon nets, single, double, triple or multi-thread nets in a single thread and multi-layer nylon nets.

Prohibiting the throwing of damaged nets and rotten fish at sea or on the shore, obliging fishermen to dispose of them in the designated places. The barber way.

Prohibitions also included linking the nets of more than one boat during fishing, the use of teaching nets (bottom / shaniha) in fishing, the use of fixed tide (dry tide) in fishing, the use of lead coated rope of all types of fishing nets, Lights connected to generators or batteries directed to the sea for collection and fishing.

Article 4 prohibits fishing by permanent nets in areas of marine or natural protected areas, and inland water areas such as natural or man-made lakes and lagoons, whether natural or expanded or deepened.

The decision obliged fishermen to pass the registration and inspection points of the Authority for the Protection of Vital Facilities and Coasts at the different fishing ports upon their departure or return from fishing trip, and to register the fishing port of the fisherman with the centers of the Vital and Facilities Protection Authority located in the same port and to inform the Center of any amendment Fishing port, adherence to the distances specified by federal and local legislation on keeping away from natural islands and petroleum installations during fishing, following security instructions, and complying with the decisions and circulars issued by the competent authorities in each In respect of the organization of fishing in the event of his desire to water of the emirate's not inconsistent with federal laws and decisions fishing.