Promotion of aquaculture in coastal areas stressed.

KARACHI -- Federal Secretary of National Food Security and Research Ghufran Memon on Thursday stressed the need for promoting aquaculture in the coastal areas of the country. He urged the fisheries experts to identify what is wrong and where in the promotion of fish and other seafood products.

He stated this while addressing to a workshop online titled 'Promotion of Aquaculture of High Value Species in Coastal Areas of Pakistan,' organised by the Fisheries Development Board (FDB) at a local hotel. Ghufran said, 'We can do wonders in next six to twelve months, it's a virgin area and untapped world.' He said that they were backwards in the export of fish and other seafood products.

He said that there was a need to identify the problems and issues of the fisheries industry to export healthy and quality seafood products around the world.

He said that he was shown a Fish Processing Unit (FPU), which disappointed him. He further said that FPUs be developed and advanced to keep the seafood fresh as well to grab markets.

He said that Sindh and Balochistan provinces' participation in the federal government-funded projects was very limited. He invited them to come...