Fisheries is considered one of the natural renewable marine resources through natural propagation. Its importance is different from one country to another. Fisheries is also one of the main natural resources in UAE . As protein resource and means of living for those who are working in fishing profession and the related drafts. Fishing operations accordingly leads to reduce the natural storage of fish, according to its abundance and the potentiality and effort of fishing ( number of boats, tools and seasonal fishing period ).

There are many factors which affect fish storage such as natural factors or the in terference of man. The natural factors include the characteristics of water, temperature of water and salinity. The effort of fishing is the main factor practiced by man for the exploitation of fish resources.
Fishing effort as well is the cniterion of fishing and its effect on fish storage. The major factor in fluences fish storage is fishing effort through number of fishing boats, fishermen, fishing tools (their volumes or length) fishing periods. The development in fishing technigues,irrigular and excess of fishing are behind the reduction of fishing quantities.

In addition, that fishing of certain kind of commercial fish even during their different sexual maturity stages, and deprive them from being . Propogated and eurich the natural storage. This no doubt will lead to the deterioration of fish storage especially when the number of fish mothers becomes few or disappear to the extent that it will become difficult to be compensated.

Restoration of fish resources is fulfilled through the follwing factors

Seasonal propagation of fish, and producing new numbers in their congregation places. Natural growth of fish in their environment. In order to maintain fisheries resources the concerned departments are conducting elaborated studies to evalvate fish storage in accordance with the obtained data of this sector, in purpose of achieving the balance between the volume of storage And fishing effort.

The realization of this balance comes through ( fish storage exploitation management ) through issuing and carrying out the decisions and regulations by fisheries department and collaboration with the concerned parties in the country. The main objective of these regulations is to protect fish storage against oppressive exploitation which will affect in long range the ability of fish storage for being renewed, and to be deteriorated to endangered standards that may lead to their extinction or incapability of keeping the volume equivalent to the practiced fishing effort.

Controlling the exploitation of fish storage in parallel with its productive capacity needs

1. Ban the fishing of small sizes of fish which have the ability for growing.Fish which have the ability to grow to maturity stages lay eggs and propagate should not be caught to reach the commercial sizes.
2. Fishing should be prohibited during propagation, fertilization seasons in order to be given the opportunity for laying eggs and for maintaining and renew the natural storage.
3. Fishing should be prohibited in certain locations which are believed to be the natural resorts of fish during propagation and fertilization season,or the of small fish and larvae in their early stages, till they reach to commercial sizes.
4. Ban usage of harmful fishing tools in accordance with the federal law number ( 23 ) of the year1999 regarding exploitation,protection and developing the living marine resources in the country and the other regulations issued for this purpose.

The regulation of fishing tools and eguipments especially that may cause harm to environment or fisheries shall be applied in certain seasons or permanently such as

• Drift nets which catch big numbers of fish without distingvishing,and cause hindrance to navigation movement after being spoild or cut .
  The method of catching by drift nets which are left roaming in the water without fixing will lesd to their driftage with the sea currents. Accordingly, this kind of catching will affect fish storage in the negative way.
• Nylon nets which lead to the death of fish and the difficulty to set fish free from those nets.
• Bottom Trawling Nets, which destroy the coral reef and seabed which are considered natural resorts of many species of small and big fish, as well to their bad effect on marine enuironment and sea creatures. Bottom nets, which catch big fish that contribute to compensate fish storage.

The By- low of the federal law number (23) of the year 1999 reyulated using the tools used for fishing and illustrated the specifications of the permitted tools as follows

• Ban on using metallic traops of different sizes whose holes are less than zxz inches to avoid catching small fish.
• Set up the specifications of the coastal nets used for catching sardine and anchovy fishes.
• Set up specifications for the fixed fishing tools ( Hadr and sakar ).
• Identification of fishing effort, through prohibiting the issuance of new fishing boats, or fishing licences as well as restrction on numbers of fishing tools.

The above shall reduce fishing effort to harmonize with the productive capacity of fish storage. It is necessary to keep on collecting data, information and statistics related to the volume of catching and production to be as amonitor of fish storage.

The regulation of fishing shall lead to protect marine environment and fisheries as a future wealth for the current and future generations against exhaustion and distinction.