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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1989
DEVELOPMENT
AND
SHE
THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE WAS TO PROVIDE INFRASTRUCTURAL SUPPORT SERVICES TO ENHANCE THEIR PRODUCTIVITY. SAID. ADDING THAT THESE SERVICES HAD HELPED THE INDUSTRIES то MODERNISE AND IMPROVE ON THEIR EFFICIENCY.
THE SECRETARY SAID THAT SHE WAS GRATEFUL то THE VARIOUS ADVISORY BODIES, NOTABLY THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, THE VEGETABLE MARKETING ADVISORY BOARD, AND THE FISH MARKETING ADVISORY BOARD FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT.
TURNING TO MARICULTURE, WHICH WAS REGULATED UNDER THE MARINE FISH CULTURE ORDINANCE, MRS CHAN SAID IT HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER THE PAST DECADE.
THAT
"BUT WE DO NEED TO ENSURE THAT ITS DEVELOPMENT IS SUCH WHILST ITS PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY IS MAXIMISED. ITS IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT IS MINIMISED," SHE STRESSED.
SHE SAID THAT го THIS END THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT HAD BEEN ASSISTING FISH FARMERS THROUGH SEMINARS AND OTHER MEANS TO ADOPT BETTER HUSBANDRY PRACTICES AND TECHNIQUES ΤΟ HELP REDUCE LOSSES DUE TO RED TIDES AND FISH DISEASES AS WELL AS TO REDUCE THE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
A NUMBER OF STUDIES ON ARTIFICIAL FISHFEED. NUTRITION, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF FISH DISEASES, AND A SCIENTIFIC APPRAISAL OF THE CARRYING CAPACITY OF FISH CULTURE ZONES HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT. SHE ADDED.
"WE ARE PRESENTLY REVIEWING OUR POLICY ON THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF MARICULTURE AND HAVE RECENTLY COMMISSIONED A CONSULTANCY STUDY ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE INDUSTRY. MRS CHAN SAID.
ON CAPTURE FISHERIES, SHE NOTED THAT ASIDE FROM THE PROVISION OF REGULAR TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES, SOME ENCOURAGING PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE IN THE TRIAL FISHING OF DEEP SEA PRAWNS.
PROGRESS WAS ALSO BEING MADE IN THE INTRODUCTION OF STEEL FISHING VESSELS AND THE TRAINING OF CREW FOR THEIR OPERATIONS HAD ALREADY COMMENCED, SHE ADDED.
OUT THAT ORDERLY ORGANISATION WAS OF THE MARINE FISH
TURNING TO FISH MARKETING, MRS CHAN POINTED MARKETING OF MARINE FISH THROUGH THE FISH MARKETING
DUE ENFORCEMENT BEING ACTIVELY PROMOTED, WITH (MARKETING) ORDINANCE.
SHE SAID THAT EFFORTS AIMED AT COMBATTING ILLEGAL MARKETING, BOTH ON LAND AND AT SEA. HAD YIELDED ENCOURAGING RESULTS.
"IN PARTICULAR. ANTI-TRIAD MEASURES ALREADY INTRODUCED INTO THREE MAJOR MARKETS HAVE RESULTED IN IMPROVEMENTS IN MARKET ORDER. EFFICIENCY AND THROUGHPUT, SHE SAID.
SIMILAR MEASURES WOULD BE EXTENDED
ΤΟ
OTHER MARKETS IN THE
NEAR FUTURE, SHE ADDED.
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