The Sindh government is set to place a two-month ban on hunt of fish and shrimp during June and July to help improve fisheries stocks in the country's seas, official said on Tuesday. Talking to Business Recorder, officials said that a notification to execute the ban will come out mostly likely by the end of this month. "It is must," the officials talked about the ban that will help keep the seas calm from fishing during the high-tide season, which is also believed to be a breeding period for shrimps.
The officials said that ban is needed to continue to help improve the existing stocks of fisheries since the country's seafood export is falling. According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the country's seafood export has declined to $293.887 million in July-Mar 2018-19, which down by 7 percent.
Fall in seafood export now stands at $21.727 million in July-Mar 2018-19 from $315.614 million in July-Mar 2017-18. In term of quantity, seafood export plunged by 5.07 percent or 6989 metric tons to 130,830 metric tons in July-Mar 2018-19 from 137,819 metric tons in July-Mar 2017-18. In Mar 2019, Pakistan faced a fall in seafood export by 11 percent or $5.502 million to $45.895 million from $51.397 million in Mar 2018. Export volume of seafood slumped by 16 percent or 3876 metric tons to 20,412 metric tons in Mar 2019 from 24,288 metric tons in Mar 2018.