Geographical analysis of the problems of fisheries In the marshes of southern Iraq

Kazem Abadi Hammadi, Dr.

	Geographical analysis of the problems of fisheries In the marshes of southern Iraq
The Arab Gulf
Article 9, Volume 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 79-96 PDF (0 K)
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Dr. Kazem Abadi Hammadi
Abstract
Fisheries of the main sources of food products complementary to the white meat in general and especially the inhabitants of the marshes, the researcher found that more than 90% of the population of the marshes depend on in daily food products, livestock and fish, because fish are the richest of the dishes made in the Iraqi diet is well known. Marsh is located between the provinces of southern Iraq (Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar) of the most water bodies in Iraq, equipped with a wealth of fish in the period before the events of the years 1991 to 2003. But after 3003 Vesbges areas of poor water and that this wealth of exposure to the process of drying and poaching Fisheries have suffered after the events of 1991 many of the problems of drying and the most important problem of water shortages, which led to the diminution of the southern marsh area, but the problem of fishing Gairalti came to the wealth of fish, especially small fish and the ways of the unjust and illegal fishing which has affected the decline in fisheries production in the marshes of Iraq South. But after the events of 2003 had faced the problem of fisheries Ilut environmental water through many sources, most important, Litterbug pollution, heavy metals and toxic at Alomrikipaly forces entered Iraq, a war Aldakhalippin population, which led to the water filled the Tigris and the Euphrates and the arrival of the dead bodies of some of their waste to the marshes, as well water pollution from toxic insecticide to combat the result of these crops and affected the flora and fauna of the marsh areas, including fisheries as one of the most affected by this aquatic pollutants. Causing the lack of water in the marshes south of the country after the drying process to follow the inhabitants of the marshes in the new ways of fishing, including fishing and dynamite, poison and stun grenades after he was limited to fishing nets and old equipment and Calfalp Alsnarp. And political events were experienced by Iraq during the period (1980-2003) a clear impact on the deterioration of fish stocks has resulted in changing the environment and the natural result of drying the water stay during the uprising Alcabanip to extinction and a greater number of large fish in the marshes of southern Iraq, the region as an arena for military operations during the Iraq war - Iran, the Gulf and the Intifada and the events Alcabanip post- (2003).

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