The Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Fisheries, Major General Salem Al-Socotra, discussed today, in the capital, Aden, with the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Yemen, Zeina Ali, the interventions implemented in the fishery sector, especially the fishing port rehabilitation project.

The meeting, which included the Chairman of the General Authority for Fisheries, Gulf of Aden, Dr. Abdul Salam Ali, the Director General of the Executive Unit for Externally Funded Projects, Dr. Musaed Al-Qutaybi, and the Director of the Fishing Port Rehabilitation Project in the UNDP, Tom Trud, touched on the level of achievement of the construction work being implemented. In the rehabilitation of the fishing port, funded by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, through the German Development Bank, in the amount of (35) million dollars.

The meeting also reviewed the progress of work on the sustainable development project for fisheries in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Gulf of Aden, which is being implemented by the United Nations Development Program through its local partners, which includes the rehabilitation of nine fish landing centers in the governorates of Aden, Hadramaut, Al-Mahra, and Taiz, with funding from The World Bank, and standing before a number of issues aimed at overcoming difficulties, to implement work according to the prepared programs, in cooperation and coordination with the leadership of the Ministry and the relevant authorities.

The Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Fisheries stressed the necessity of completing the restoration and rehabilitation work for the fishing port and fish landing centers that were raised by the Ministry and its fisheries bodies, and adhering to the prepared time period... stressing the Ministry’s keenness to overcome the difficulties facing the implementation of the projects being implemented. By the Development Program in the fisheries sector... valuing the support provided by the Federal Republic of Germany and the World Bank to Yemen.