The Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Fisheries, Major General Salem Al-Socotra, discussed today, in the capital, Aden, with the owners of private fish-grinding factories, the implementation of the ministerial decision related to prohibiting the establishment or establishment of private fish-grinding factories, especially in light of the problems facing the fish sector in our country.< /p>

The meeting, which was attended by the Undersecretary for the Fish Production and Marketing Sector, Ghazi Lahmar, and the heads of fisheries bodies in the Red Sea, Engineer Khaled Al-Shamsi, and the Arabian Sea, Engineer Yaslam Babalghoum, and Al-Mahra, Engineer Abdel Nasser Kalshat, and the advisors and general directors in the Ministry, included a number of topics related to the decision and results. consequences.

The minister explained that our country has a vast coastal strip containing a diverse and unique fish wealth, but it was almost completely destroyed as a result of the war... pointing to the excessive depletion of fish wealth due to several factors such as overfishing, and the spread of unlicensed fish grinding factories, in addition to... Due to what was caused by natural disasters, which led to weak fish production and no longer meeting the needs of local markets.

Al-Soqatri also stressed the ministry’s keenness to activate private investment in the fish sector as it is an essential partner for the government and the ministry, contributes to the development of the fish sector, and supplies the state treasury with hard currency... stressing the need to adhere to local laws and regulations, aimed at regulating the fishing process and investment in the sector. Fish.

He pointed to the ministry’s efforts to obtain funding from donor countries for fish projects, including projects to rehabilitate fish landing centers in the governorates of Hadramaut and Al-Mahra, and the project to rehabilitate the fishing port in the temporary capital of Aden, funded by the German government, as well as agricultural projects.