DUBAI: The central question for fishing firms and policymakers when they meet in Riyadh on Sunday, is how to boost the amount of seafood the Kingdom draws from its 2,400 km coast fivefold by the end of the decade? Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan to diversify the economy targets 600,000 tons per year of fish drawn from its Red Sea and Gulf coastline, generating SR17 billion
Saudi Arabia plans to produce 600,000 tons of fish a year, generating around 200,000 direct and indirect jobs in the fisheries sector, under its Vision 2030 master plan to diversify the economy. The National Fisheries Development Program, founded in 2015, is tasked with this growth and hopes to attract $5 billion of investment from the private sector up until the end of the
Saleh Aldosari has served as vice president of the food sector at the Saudi Food and Drug Authority since 2018. Before that, he held two positions at King Saud University. He founded the Date Palm Research Chair, which was awarded the Khilafah International Prize for Date Palms and Agricultural Innovation in the UAE. He also taught students at the Agriculture College for about