His Excellency Dr. Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahad, the Minister of Environment and Water, issued the ministerial decision number (706) of 2013, concerning the regulation, manufacture, import and use of gargoors. This step serves the framework of the Ministry of Environment and Water to achieve its strategic objectives with respect to the protection and development of living aquatic resources.

The decision allows fishing for benthic fish using gargoors (traditional cage fish traps)  for fishermen who hold licenses issued by the ministry throughout the year, as well as allowing them to practice fishing by using other methods such as hooks and threads, except for fishing nets.

The decision mentioned specifications for the manufacture, importation, circulation and use of gargoors that are allowed to be used: the gargoor must not be less than 31.5 inches in height (equivalent to 80 cm), and not less than the length of 68.9 inches in circumference base (equivalent to 175 cm), and not less than 1.5 x 1.5 inches in between net openings (equivalent to 3.8 x 3.8 cm ).

The decision prevented the use of lynches to raise gargoors up to the surface. Also, the gargoors must be labeled through a unified numbering system with clear codes that are identical to the number of the boat, including the code of the Emirate.

It is worth mentioning that the lynch is a heavy weight tool made ​​of iron with several hooks at the end of its edges. It is used in raising gargoors, and lowering it to the sea floor and dragged for long distances  which causes the degradation of the environment, the destruction of benthic organisms, which usually take many years to grow back.

The dragging process may raise the benthic sediments and kill marine creatures. Furthermore,  it destroys coral reefs in the marine environment,  as coral reefs are one of the most important environments due to its biological diversity and high productivity, as it represents the main habitat for many marine organisms, and their destruction will lead to biodiversity loss especially in fish nurturing sites.

In addition,  the noise caused by this tool as a result of rock fractioning leads to the expulsion of fish and aquatic organisms to other places, and it imbalances the marine ecosystem. The negative effects of gargoors doubles if it their locating devices are missing, or damaged; where the gargoors are kept in these locations trapping fish and they are decomposed after a long period of time.