EU-financed Worldfish project to revamp aquaculture in East Africa

Published 2021년 1월 29일

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A new project, TRUE-FISH, funded by the European Union, aims to revitalize the fishery and aquaculture production systems in Lake Victoria, located in the East African Community (EAC) region. The initiative will focus on enhancing commercial fish-farming networks, providing training in aquaculture, and promoting sustainability and biosecurity. It will be implemented in partnership with the Lake Victoria Fishing Organization and WorldFish. The project seeks to combat declines in commercial fish stocks due to overfishing, invasive species, pollution, and climate change, and to meet the growing demand for seafood in East Africa.

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A new project is underway in East Africa that could reverse declines in Nile perch and tilapia in Lake Victoria and revamp the fishery’s aquaculture production systems, opening opportunity for access to bigger regional and international seafood markets.The European Union-financed East African Community (EAC) project for promoting aquaculture in the Lake Victoria Basin, dubbed TRUE-FISH, entails supporting the growth of regional and international commercial fish-farming networks, training skilled aquaculture producers and workers, and promoting sustainability and biosecurity in Lake Victoria’s aquaculture production systems shared by Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. EAC is an intergovernmental organization composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.The project recently received a major boost when the Malaysia-based international nonprofit research organization WorldFish signed a research ...

Source: Seafoodsource