Ras al-Khaimah Fishing Guidelines

In force

RAK Environment Protection and Development Authority

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Dear angler, please follow the guidelines below to help protect fish stocks from depletion:

Fishing during fish spawning seasons reduces the number of female fish, which are essential to reproduction and the conservation of the species, so let’s protect our fish stocks.
Your use of three-layer nets of different sizes for fishing in territorial waters is putting our fish stocks at risk of depletion.
To protect our fish stocks, we must comply with the mesh sizes stipulated in Ministerial Decree No. (574) of 2015 on the regulation of fishing with nets.

The minimum opening of the net when it is taut	Window specifications	Fishing season	Fishing method
Cinnamon fish: Number of eyes per arm: 7–10 (18 to 17), equivalent to 2 inches.Other surface-feeding fish: Number of eyes per arm: 7–10 (decimal to septimal), equivalent to (3.7 to 5.2) inches	The length of the gillnet must not exceed 700 ba’, equivalent to 1,100 metres, for a single connected set or two separate sets. The thickness of the net line must be the same for both sets. One end of the gillnet must be secured to the boat, with a light marker attached to the other end.The width of the net ...