Directives: Fishing sector to be promoted in Punjab

LAHORE: Director General Fisheries Punjab D. Muhammad Ayub said that a comprehensive plan had been chalked out to meet the growing demand of fish seed in the province and for promoting this sector. Presiding over a departmental meeting here on Tuesday, he said that Rs165.592 million would be spent over making hatcheries in D.G Khan while a large hatchery in Lahore and five new nurseries in various districts of the province were being made at the cost of Rs467 million. The DG said the main objective of the project was to deliver better fish seed and extension services to the fish farmers for the promotion of fisheries sector. Ayub added that for the growth of fish farming, besides cage culture and race way Culture, bio floc technology, pro biotics technology and genetically modified organism was being used worldwide.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 20^th, 2016.

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