1500 Native fish released on World Oceans Day

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The Lost Chambers and the Environmental Health and Safety dept. team up to release 1500 native fish on World Oceans Day. Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00The Lost Chambers Atlantis and the Environmental Health and Safety Department teamed up for

00:16a native fish release at Nasimi Beach on the Palm to raise awareness of ocean conservation.

00:20The initiative aims to boost local fish stocks by raising native fish species and releasing

00:24them into the sea. The fish being released were cultured by the Marine Resource Research

00:28Center of the Ministry of Environment and Water.

00:31Today is World Oceans Day, so as part of World Oceans Day we're doing a fish release. On

00:37Friday we were celebrating in the aquarium, teaching the general public conservation,

00:42especially the younger children because that's where we believe the conservation starts.

00:47As well as looking after the animals in exhibits, we're very committed to looking after the

00:50animals in the ocean here and keeping the stocks at a healthy and sustainable level.

00:55So we see what we're doing here today as an important part of that and this is just

00:59a small one that we started with and we plan to do a lot more in the future as well. We

01:05feel this is a very important part for everyone that comes to Dubai.

01:10These are called silvery black porgies. They're very small but they'll grow a lot bigger.

01:13The Ministry of Environment and Water are doing a fantastic job at actually producing

01:18these animals and breeding them and getting them ready for release. So we're going to

01:21be working very closely with them over the coming months and then after the summer when

01:25the water cools down a little bit we'll do another bigger release then.

01:33The public was invited to take part in this initiative and many were on hand at the event

01:36showing that preservation and conservation of our local marine life has taken root in

01:40our community, especially amongst the youth.

01:43Logan Fish for Gulf News.

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