Middle East – Saudi Arabia
SAUDI ARABIA FACTS
Aquaculture started in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s
The country’s growth target is one million tonnes by 2020
The government has
invested $10.6 billion in the industry, a sector it now regards as an economic priority
Red HOT HOT
Aquaculture in Saudi Arabia is growing in the right direction, says FAO man tasked with exploiting the region’s potential
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Someti mes when Dr Francesco Cardia, an Italian, talks about the burgeoning aquaculture industry in Saudi Arabia he says ‘we’ rather than
‘they’, so immersed is he in the development of the sector there. As an FAO project manager, based at the Jed- dah Fisheries Research Centre, he is overseeing the fi sh farming component of $3.6 million, four-year project between the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organisati on of the UN. Aquaculture started in Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s and the government has recently identi fi ed it as an economic priority, backing its ambiti ous growth target – one million tonnes
by 2030 – with $10.6 billion. Cardia, on board since 2013, is already making signifi cant strides in the region and explains his mission as ‘working to develop a much larger relevance for the aquaculture industry’ in the kingdom. ‘Strengthening and supporti ng further de-
velopment of aquaculture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’, the name of the FAO project, runs from 2012 to 2016 and has four main streams: supporti ng the development of cage aquacul- ture in the Red Sea; supporti ng the develop- ment of hatchery technologies and research in the Jeddah Fisheries Centre; strengthening the linkage between the centre and other research insti tuti ons; and capacity building for ministry
The FAO-Saudi project aims to develop cage aquaculture in the Red Sea
It also supports the development of hatchery technology
Saudi Arabia has a long coastline and warm water inlets ideally suited to marine aquaculture
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