Fishing

Fishing has been one of the main food sources for the inhabitants of coastal communities in the Arabian Gulf for no less than 7,000 years, and even if the tool have changed, successive generations of fishermen in Dubai continue to use the same types of fishing techniques. Fish is an essential part of the diet of the people of the region, as well as a tradition dating back hundreds of years.
The increase in the population of Dubai during the 19^th and early 20^th centuries prompted a greater demand for fish. As a result, fishing was characterized as one of the important economic activities of the coastal communities distinguished by cooperation and mutual respect between the members of these communities. Fishermen maintained the same traditional techniques, and since fish was dried, salted and exported to neighbouring areas fishing became one of the main contributors to the prosperity of the Dubai economy.