News - Yemen: The people of Al-Hodeidah Governorate organized protests after Friday prayers, denouncing the attacks and piracy against Yemeni fishermen.

They stressed that the practice of piracy against Yemeni fishermen in the Red Sea, carried out by the forces of the US-Saudi aggression, is among the crimes of the coalition in its unjust war on Yemen for eight years, in light of a shameful international silence.

Statements issued by the demonstrators denounced all inhumane practices against the Yemeni people, including the fishermen, for whom the sea is a source of livelihood for them and their families.

The statements condemned the systematic looting of marine wealth in the Red Sea by the aggression, calling for all measures to be taken to prevent the looting.

Yemeni fishermen are subjected to systematic targeting by the forces of aggression and their mercenaries, whether by killing or kidnapping, and the continued prevention of fishing, and the arrest of dozens of them.

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.