Rachid Boukedjouta, Deputy Director of the National Center for Research and Development in Fisheries and Aquaculture (CNRDPA), revealed on Tuesday on Radio Nationale that “fish farming in Algeria is a reality”.
Although Skikda’s first floating cage fish farm, which entered production last year after 14 months of fattening in the municipality of El Marsa, sea bream farms have been set up in the south-west, supplying some 300 tons of stocks of sea bream.
In this regard, Rachid Boukedjouta said that “the center, under the supervision of the public authorities and professionals, monitors fishing activity along the Algerian coast every year with the aim of ensuring the rational exploitation of fish wealth and its protection”.
He revealed that “Algeria has two major continental plateaus in terms of abundance of fish stocks in both the east and west of the country, but that the central region of the country is not the same size.”
For him, “marine life is determined by a depth ranging from zero to two hundred meters.”
He added: “We have developed a short-term research strategy extending to 2025 in partnership with public authorities and professionals to track the movement, activity and reproduction of the most important fish marketed on the national market, which have economic and environmental importance, with the aim of determining their commercial volume and rest periods to avoid harming the national wealth, including tuna and long swordfish.”
Source; algeriainvest.com