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
Aquaculture
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
Fish farming project in Northern Niger boosts local economy
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has completed a fish farming project in Bilma, in the Kawar region in northern Niger, to benefit more than 6,500 people through its Community Stabilisation Initiatives in Northern Niger (COSINN) project, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office