Dubai International Marine Club organizes the first round of the Dubai Fishing Competition 2020 tomorrow, Thursday 16th of January until Saturday, 18th of January with total prize money of 230,000 dirhams.

The organizing committee of the big event allocated 230 thousand dirhams as the total of the prizes for the competition in the first round, which includes two categories, the Kingfish and the Cobia, where a certain prize is allocated for the top 10 winners in the first category and the top three winners for the second category.

The Dubai Fishing Championship competitions will be held in Jumeirah 5 (Fishermen Harbor 3 ) with a new sponsor Delma Marine – Mercury in partnership with the P&O Marinas, Dubai Cooperative Society for Fishermen, Dubai International Boat Show 2020 and under the supervision of the UAE Marine Sports Federation (UAEMSF)

The winner of the biggest catch in weight in the Kingfish category will take home a total of 75 thousand dirhams wherein the 25 thousand dirhams will be from the organizing committee and the 50 thousand dirhams from the sponsor company Delma Marine - Mercury in addition to that P&O Marina will give a one year free of charge wet berth for a maximum of 15m boat worth of 45 thousand dirhams for the champion of each round.

The committee continues to receive registration and had issued stickers for those who successfully registered with the race instruction that includes some terms and conditions, the method of fishing, how to document it, the timetable and location of fishing handover. The event is rescheduled to start on Thursday after the announcement made by the committee postponing it for 2days (Tuesday original schedule) due to the weather forecast and for the safety of all the participants and to give them the best conditions to catch the biggest fish (in terms of weight).

Stay tune and find out on Saturday who will catch the biggest fish!