YR 12 bln fish projects within investment plan for 2010 discussed

SANAA, Sept.05
(Saba) - A meeting held here on Saturday, chaired by Minster of Fisheries Mohammed
Shamlan,
discussed fish projects to be listed within the ministry's investment program for
2010 at a total cost of YR 12 billion.
The projects include constructing fish complexes and fish ports in Hodeidah
province and Socotra Island as well as other infrastructure projects and fish
facilities in different
provinces.
Moreover, the projects include studying Yemen's fish stock and executing an
integral program for developing the fish cooperatives and the fish collaborative
union and its
branches in the coastal provinces.
On another hand, the meeting dealt with the ministry's operating budget for the
same period, which exceeds YR765 million.
In the meeting, Shamlan affirmed the necessity of realizing the needful fish
projects so as to meet the investment expansion in the fish sector especially the
infrastructure
projects.
He pointed to the importance of putting down the infrastructure projects in Soctora
Island within the investment program as it is one of the Yemeni islands that are
wealthy
with fisheries.
BA