Dubai: Fujairah has adopted the UAE’s first integrated digital fisheries platform, expanding a national effort to track fishing activity and verify seafood origins.

The SFS Fisheries system, developed by Seafood Souq, enables real-time monitoring through mobile tools, digital logbooks, and landing validation. It was first introduced in Sharjah at Souq Al Jubail.

The rollout in Fujairah follows a memorandum of understanding between the Fujairah Fishermen Association and Seafood Souq, supported by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment.

Commenting on the partnership, Sheikh Fahim Al Qasimi, co-founder of Seafood Souq, said: “Partnerships in vital sectors such as food and seafood are essential to building more efficient production systems, bringing together scientific knowledge and operational expertise across the value chain.

"Traceability and transparency are no longer optional; they are fundamental to how global markets assess quality, build trust, and determine competitiveness.”

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