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The Independent fishermen Association of Abu khashaba calls for the receipt of fallow land in Kafr El-Sheikh to cultivate fish to improve the lives of fishermen and Fisheries Development

The Land Centre held a training meeting in the village of Abu khashaba in Kafr El-Sheikh, on Saturday 4/ 05 /2011, the meeting was attended by a large number of fishermen in the village who are the founders of the union of fishermen and members of the Board of Directors of the Independent Union of Fishermen and address the role of the union and its aims to improve the lives of fishermen, the participants agreed with the Board of Directors in a work program for the Association during the coming months, particularly with regard to ownership scheme, members of the union Moors Kafr El-Sheikh (five acres for each member) to be converted to fish farms contribute to the self-sufficiency in fish production and lead to the creation of job opportunities for thousands of people of the province, and also agreed on the need for the Board of Directors organization fishing licenses for fishing workers through the Committee was formed from members of the Board of Directors, in addition to their agreement on a work program for a period of six months to strengthen the rights of members of the health and social insurance and participated both by Dr. Abeer Badran, Kamal Ahmed and Karam Saber from the Land Center for Human Rights in vision the union of the concerns of citizens in the village or the rest of the issues related to the main concerns of the province people, and in this context called for fishermen to stop encroachment on river water and remove the cages of fish that come to the fishing waters for free to small-scale fishers and in this context, stressed the Centre on the role of the union to defend the interests of its members and they differ from the party and the General He said members at the end of the meeting, the need to plan on how to defend the interests of small fishermen to support the fishing rights in security and a decent life and improve their standard of living and develop their abilities to ensure decent work and increase their incomes and to ensure a decent living for their families.