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Return of 14 Fishermen Detained by US-Saudi Mercenaries to Hodeidah

News - Yemen: The General Authority for Fisheries in the Red Sea received 14 fishermen who were detained by the US-Saudi mercenaries, at the Fish Landing Center in Al-Lahya District, Al-Hodeidah Governorate.

The Director General of Ports and Fishing Landing Centers at the authority, Aziz Atini, explained that the returned fishermen were kidnapped for periods ranging from one week to 22 days.

Meanwhile, the fishermen reported that the mercenaries kidnapped three of them from Ardeen Island, one of the islands of Midi District, Hajjah Governorate. They were forced to contact their families to pay a ransom for their return, while warning them not to inform any official body.

The fishermen indicated that they were released with their boat while seizing the engine and fishing gear.

They stated that 11 fishermen were kidnapped from the Yemeni island of Shaabin, where they were intercepted by four Saudi-barracuda boats , each on board four armed mercenaries, indicating that they attacked the fishermen by beating and cursing, and they were taken to an unknown area.

The fishermen pointed out that after a week of physical and verbal abuse and deprivation of food, they were returned to the site of their abduction.

Days ago, fishermen in Al-Hodeidah Governorate organized a protest to denounce the looting, the destruction of marine wealth, and the piracy carried out by the US-Saudi aggression in Yemen's territorial waters.

During the protest, they called for standing together to prevent such practices carried out by the US-Saudi aggression, to loot the marine wealth, which represents a right for the Yemeni people and a source of income for many workers.

On Thursday, The governor of Hodeidah, Mohammad Quhaim, warned fishing companies not to approach the coasts of Yemen, especially the West Coast.

Governor Quhaim said, in a tweet, that looting oil is like looting fisheries, all of which are wealth for the homeland.

Saudi Arabia and many of its allies have been waging a war on Yemen since 2015 to restore power to the country’s Riyadh-friendly former officials. The war and a simultaneous siege that the US-Saudi-led coalition has been enforcing on the country has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis.

The invasion has pushed entire Yemen close to the brink of outright famine, turning the country into the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Coastal communities in Yemen have suffered greatly in the ongoing bloody war. Fishing boats, ports and processing sites have been destroyed or damaged, and many fishermen have lost their lives.

The US-Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes which hit fishing boats and markets, and mines were laid in the sea making the waters treacherous. To make matters worse, the exacerbation of piracy and attacks by the Eritrean authorities and the aggression forces against fishermen on the Yemeni coasts.

As of August 2019, at least 334 fishermen had been reported killed or injured since 2015, according to statistics from Yemen's fisheries authority. Others had been arrested and had their boats seized, while some were now detained in Saudi-run prisons in Yemen.

Local reports estimate that of Yemen's approximate 100,000 fishermen, since 2015 over a third (37,000) have quit and thus lost their income.fishermen and the fish sector in Yemen.

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