Abyan: citizens prevent exporting of fish to Saudi Arabia

ABYAN, Aug. 10 (YPA) – Citizens in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan on Monday stopped exporting shipments of fish to Saudi Arabia, denouncing the high prices locally and depriving the province’s people of it.

According to a local source, dozens of Mudiyah district members intercepted locomotives loaded with large quantities of fish after catching them from the coast of Abyan on their way to Saudi Arabia.

He added that the people cut off the international line and prevented the locomotives from continuing their way, forcing the locomotives back to Aden and  Shuqra to sell them there in protest against the export of fish at a time when the province’s people were suffering from famine and could not  offer to buy them.

The residents stressed that they continued to move in order to reject the looting of the province’s wealth by corrupt officials and to make its children suffer from hunger.

Saudi Arabia has occupied all the Yemeni shores, where fisheries are subjected to widespread looting and dredging of marine life by internationally prohibited fishing methods ranging from bombing to illegal nets, while Saudi ships target Yemeni fishermen in the exercise of their profession, which they depend on for a living.

E.M