Iraq’s fishing boats resume activity in Arab Gulf waters:

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi fishing boats have resumed activity in the Arab Gulf waters on Sunday evening, the Mayor of southern Iraq’s Faw Terminal said. “The Iraqi fishing boats have resumed their activity in the Arab Gulf waters after the lifting of the decision preventing them to fish in the said waters, issued by southern Iraq’s Basra Operations Command last Friday,” Mayor Walid al-Sharify told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The fishing men have presented commitments to the Basra Operations command not to surpass the Iraqi Regional waters,” Sharify added. The Basra Operations Command had issued a decision on Friday banning Iraqi fishing boats to fish in the Gulf waters till further notice, as a precautionary measure to overcome problems that might occur with Iranian and Kuwait coast guards. The Kuwait Coast guards have sunk an Iraqi fishing boat, with 9 persons on board last week, detaining five of them, whilst the others were considered as lost..The detained Iraqi fishing men were set free after one day of their detention. Noteworthy is that Iraqi fishing men have faced several violations in Faw Terminal, 100 kms to the south of Basra, during their fishing in the Iraqi regional waters by Iranian and Kuwaiti patrols. Basra‘s local administration has demanded the Iraqi Foreign Ministry to hold joint agreements with Kuwait and Iran to protect and facilitate the activity of local fishing men in the Iraqi regional waters. Basra, the center of the province carrying the same name, is 590 ms to the south of Baghdad. (PT) / SKH 205