Mauritius Ports Authority (MPA) will construct a fishing port and breakwater structures, improving fishing operations and rationalising the parking of idle fishing vessels
Aquaculture
Call for a ‘radical’ change to feed growing population, shows ASC survey
Two thirds (63 per cent) of survey-respondents of a global survey of seafood consumers have called for ‘radical’ or ‘significant’ change to feed the world’s growing population, expressing widespread concern about the environmental and social impacts of food
South African Police Service to reclassify abalone poaching as serious priority crime
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has announced that abalone poaching will be reclassified as a serious priority crime, with the related crime of an organised nature being considered a serious offence
Egypt establishes fish, animal farms in four African countries
Maher Maghraby, head of the Project of African Farms, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, has announced that the country has started to establish three fish farms and an animal farm in four African countries
US contributes US$560,000 to support fish farm in Algeria’s refugee camp
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$560,000 contribution from the US State Department to support the WFP’s innovative fish farm in Algeria’s Tindouf refugee camps