The UAE should ban lower income expat workers from owning a boat, according to FNC member.
Hamad Al Rahoomi (Dubai) said the Minister of Public Works and National Transport Authority should impose a ban on blue collar expat workers from buying boats, according a report in The National.
Al Rahoomi said the current boat-licensing requirements in the UAE make in relatively easy for low-paid workers to buy a boat, who are then able to compete with Emirati fishermen and rent out boats for tourist rides.
“If an accident happens tomorrow and we lose tourists, then we are [in trouble],” he said.
Al Rahoomi said boat owners should have a reasonable income, be able to swim and have a limit imposed on the amount of fish they catch.
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