Fisheries Department is providing every possible help and information to the fish farmers regarding fish culture techniques for producing export quality fish so as to earn foreign exchange for the country. Director General Fisheries Dr Muhammad Ayub stated this while talking to media-men here on Friday.
He said a six-month diploma course had been completed successfully to provide knowledge to the fish farmers regarding modern methods of fish farming. It was the first programme of its kind in the country, he said, adding the Fisheries Department was also going to start a degree programme so that fish industry could be further developed, he added.
Dr Ayub said the Fisheries Department was extending technical assistance to fish farmers for investment in the fisheries sector under private-public partnership. Fisheries Department is making all out efforts to bring researchers, scientists, fish farmers and fish traders on a single platform so that the problems being faced in fisheries sector could be resolved on scientific basis.
He further said that Punjab government was extending all out co-operation and support for the establishment of aquaculture technology park and export processing zone for facilitating private sector in the export of fish products and in this regard tenders have been issued for feasibility study. The Department was fully capable to modernise aquaculture and it would succeed in its efforts in that regard, he added.
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