In every environmental system, whether political or environmental, milestones are highlighted that require the transfer of society from the state of instinct to the state of administration, and from the custom to the law.
Perhaps the decision of the Supreme Council for the Environment regarding the organization of the Bahraini fisherman’s license represents this articulated moment in the context of the National Marine Resources Administration.
For centuries, the sea remained a partner in the formulation of Bahraini identity, and the profession practiced by grandparents was not just a means of livelihood, but an existential ritual that constitutes the structure of collective memory.
However, the continuation of this legacy under the pressure of modernity can only be through contemporary tools that protect the supplier without excluding man.
The Supreme Council for the Environment, a sovereign institution with an environmental and strategic dimension, did not bring its decisions from a vacuum.
Rather, it is based on a accumulated conviction that wealth is not administered with passion, but rather wisdom; And that the right of the hunter to the sea does not detract, but it needs controls that ensure that the sea remains alive, and the profession is sustainable.
– The balance between the right and the duty: in the philosophy of modern environmental management, the right is not understood in isolation from duty. The organization of the Bahraini fisherman’s license is not a restriction of the individual’s freedom, but rather is a redefinition of its location within the ecological balance chain.
When the legal right is linked to a set of age, professional, and contractual requirements, this does not only reflect organizationalism, but also establishes a rational relationship between man and resources.
This trend does not differ in its essence from what the UN Sustainable Development Agency 2030 calls for, nor from international protocols in preserving biological diversity and protecting coastal systems.
Bahrain here does not go in isolation, but rather interferes between its ancient marine heritage, and the requirements of the modern state related to a network of environmental and international obligations.
– An environmental strategy: What is happening cannot be read as an administrative decision, but as a social engineering tool aimed at controlling the rhythm of the relationship between the citizen and resources.
This is not only the issue of a license or a serial number, but a project to update the concept of maritime work, liberating it from randomness, and linking it to a state apparatus capable of monitoring, planning and interfering.
And if the hunter citizen is the direct party in this decision, then the deepest party is the future generations that will be born in light of a new naval equation, which balances the right to exploitation and the duty to protect.
– The cornerstone of the cornerstone: in small societies, as in the major countries, the sustainability of resources is not only based, but rather the ability of the state to organize the relationship between people and the environment.
Hence, what the Supreme Council for the Environment is doing is not only an organization of the fishing sector, but rather an consolidation of a sovereign principle: that the state is responsible for the supplier, as it is responsible for the citizen.
The license is not the end of freedom, but its true beginnings: organized, responsible freedom, related to the public interest, not by individual tendency.
And Bahrain – through this decision – proves that it entered a new stage of environmental thinking: a stage that is not equal to exploitation and development, but rather puts sustainability as a corner stone in everything related to the environment .. and the sea .. and man.
