Fisheries Department is providing every possible help to the fish farmers :Dr. Muhammad Ayub

Lahore: 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.

This was stated by Director General Fisheries Dr. Muhammad Ayub while talking to media-men in his office, here today.

Dr. Muhammad Ayub informed that a six monthly diploma course has been completed successfully in order to provide information to the fish farmers regarding modern methods of fish farming. He said that it is the first programme of its kind in the country. He said that Fisheries Department is also going to start a degree programme so that fish industry could be further developed.

Dr. Ayub said that Fisheries Department is extending technical assistance to fish farmers for investment in the fisheries sector under private- public partnership. He said that 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 is extending all out cooperation 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. He said that the Fisheries Department is fully capable to modernize aquaculture and it will succeed in its efforts in this regard.