With the beginning of the season of catching the migratory fish migratory the increasing activity of fishermen in the territorial waters of Iraq intensively, while renewed the Association of fishing in the Fa region, demanding the government to support the fishermen and the exemption of owners of boats tax. 

"The Iraqi fishing boats have been intensively active in the Iraqi territorial waters in the northern Gulf, coinciding with the arrival of the migratory fish," said Badran Issa, director of the association, in an interview with Alsumaria News. "The hunting season provides temporary jobs for hundreds of citizens, Sons of Faw ".




"At the beginning of the season, patient prices are high in the local markets and then gradually decrease, and currently the price of the pair ranges from 40 to 60 thousand dinars," Issa said, adding that "this season bodes well for hunting the same as the previous season." 

"The profession of fishing requires the support of the government, at least in terms of not burdening the fishermen with taxes and fees that weigh heavily on them," Issa said, adding that "the owners of fishing boats complain of imposing heavy taxes on them when renewing the vacations (annuals) of their boats, With other charges related to the engines of boats. "

It is noteworthy that the patient patience includes five types appear similar in color and shape, but vary in their areas, and the common patient in Iraq is scientifically called (Hilsa shad T. Ilisha), one of the species of marine fish migrating, where the mothers of this type of fish with the beginning Every summer coming from the Indian subcontinent to the waters of the Arabian Gulf, including the Iraqi territorial waters to reach the Shatt al-Arab, from the southernmost of Basra to the north, where they multiply in the region in a few weeks, and then return with their young to their original home, In earning their living on fishing this type of fish class First.