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Director General Fisheries Punjab Dr Muhammad Ayub has said that in order to meet growing demand of fish seed in the province, a large hatchery in Lahore and five new nurseries in various districts of the province are being established at a cost of Rs 467 million. He said that main objective of the project is to deliver better fish seed and extension services to the fish farmers for the promotion of fisheries sector.
He stated this while talking to media who called on him at his office, here on Thursday. He said that a large hatchery is being established in Lahore at Bhaseen on 60 acres of land at a cost of Rs 254 million, whereas five nurseries consisting on six acres each in Pakpattan, Mandi Bahauddin, Narowal, Chiniot and Nankana Sahib at a cost of 197 million rupees and 16 million rupees will be spent on office management.
Dr Muhammad Ayub said that for the growth of fish farming sector, besides Cage culture and Race Way Culture, Bio Floc Technology, Pro Biotics Technology and Genetically Modified Organism is being used worldwide for the rapid growth in production of fish. DG Fisheries said through Intensive Fish Seed Rearing, baby fish could be produced at small places and in this regard experts and professionals of Fisheries department made successful experiments in Mian Channu and Faisalabad.
He said that in order to make aquaculture a state-of-the-art, sub-agency of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation's technical cooperation for good aquaculture practices are being introduced to improve and promote fish farming sector to garner quality production.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2016

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