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The National Aquaculture Centre in Ras Hayyan is now functioning with a 70% increased capacity, Works Minister said, with all its available ponds operating at maximum capacity.
“The centre’s hatchery is now working at 100% capacity to produce larvae of sobriety, fingerlings and groupers,” said Essam Khalaf, the Minister of Works, Municipality Affairs and Urban planning. The project, a strategic partnership between the ministry and the oil and gas authority, aims at raising the production of larvae and fingerlings of commercial fish species to five million annually.
The partnership had also contributed to the production of live food to be used as natural food for fish larvae and about 3 million citrus prawns daily.