Published 28 Nov,2020 via Muscat Daily - The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources has banned harvesting, collecting and dealing in abalone during the 2020 and 2021 fishing seasons.
In a statement the ministry said, 'With the exclusion of fishing companies and individual fishermen who possess registered quantities of abalone from past seasons, the decision bans the possession, sale, purchase, distribution, transport, storage and export of abalone during the two seasons, which means dealing in abalone will be restricted solely to registered quantities.'
The ministry had only last year lifted the ban on abalone fishing after it banned it for two years in 2017 in order to replenish the stocks, which continued to fall during the last few years. The season was opened from December 7 to December 16, with the prohibition in place for the full year.
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