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The president of INSOPESCA, Gilberto Gimenez, with the Ecuadorian delegation in Cumana. (Photo: Insopesca)
Aquaculture cooperation bolstered with Ecuador
VENEZUELA
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 17:10 (GMT + 9)
The subsecretary of Aquaculture of Ecuador, Jose Centanaro, travelled to Venezuela, accompanied by four Ecuadorian technicians, with the aim of following up on the six aquaculture agreements signed by both nations and observing the local social-production model first-hand.
In the city of Cumana, Sucre state, the Ecuadorian delegates were received by the president of the Socialist Fisheries and Aquaculture Institute (INSOPESCA), Gilberto Gimenez.
Of the six signed agreements, two will be realised in Venezuela, two in Ecuador and the rest in both countries.
The initiatives are tied to food provision, shrimp farm fortification, fresh-water fish reproduction and processing, training fishing communities in marine aquaculture and floating cage systems,
Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias reports.
Six Venezuelan technicians in aquaculture are already receiving training in Ecuador in the field of shrimp.
Centanaro expressed his satisfaction at being in Venezuela and at being able to start up the Venezuelan model of management in his territory.
“We hope that the Ecuadorian communities where these processing centres or reproduction laboratories are set up have the same level of belonging that they feel here,” he said.
The Ecuadorian technicians will participate in an education workshop, that includes tours in Cumana through the facilities of the Socialist Industrial Mixed Company of
the Bolivarian Alternative for the Communities of Our America (PESCALBA), through the Socialist Tuna Production Unit Antonio Jose de Sucre, and through the processing plant of Fextun tuna. They will also travel to the Barinas state to visit the fish processing plants that operate in the country.
According to Gimenez , the Ecuadorian and Venezuelan Governments will invest USD 32 million, in equal parts, in the formation of the bilateral seafood firm.
Meanwhile, Jose Moreno, president of
the Venezuelan Association of Tuna vessels (AVATUN) was hopeful that shellfish breeding in pools will help to recover the volumes that were commercialised in the market, and which dropped when industrial trawl fishing was prohibited.
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By Analia Murias
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