Angola’s annual continental fishery output has trebled to over 15,000 tonnes in the last three years, Angola’s Artisan Fisheries Development Institute (IPA), has said.
IPA director-general Agostinho Duarte attributed the large-margin increase of fishery output to the acquisition of "new fishing boats and training courses for fishermen" in recent years. All the country’s 18 provinces "have a fishing fleet of 30 to 40 boats each", he said, adding the goal was to expand the provincial fishing fleet to at least 100 boats in the years ahead.
He said the fishing fleets of Moxico and Kuando Kubango provinces would be expanded to at least 100 boats each. "The number of boats available in the two provinces is still insufficient to increase the volume of catches, since the provinces have greater potentials of fishery," he said.
Angola relaunched fisheries across the country in 2003, a year after the end of the 27-year civil war. To boost them, the government in 2006 gave the green light for the importation of modern fishing equipment.
Xinhua
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