The Inception Workshop is going to be held on January 04 at Crystal Hall, Pearl Continental, Lahore. This workshop has been organized by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Pakistan in collaboration with Department of Fisheries, Punjab under Technical Cooperation Program (TCP) for a project “Promotion of Good Aquaculture Practices (GAqP) in Farming of Carps and Other Potential Finfish in Punjab and Balochistan Provinces”.
The objective of this inception workshop is successful implementation of the TCP project and dissemination of the project outcome will make significant contribution to sustainable development of aquaculture production in Pakistan, which will ultimately contribute to national food security and nutrition, and rural livelihood enhancement in the country. Provincial fisheries heads, officers, fish farmers and all other stakeholders are participating in this workshop to exchange their views for promotion of aquaculture and foreign FAO delegates are also participating in this event.
The project will be implemented in the selected areas of two provinces i.e. Punjab and Balochistan, in collaboration with Department of Fisheries, Punjab and Department of Fisheries, Balochistan, Pakistan Agriculture Research Council and Pakistan Fisheries Development Board. It is actually first time that FAO has approved a project for promotion of Fisheries & Aquaculture in the Punjab province. Technical guidelines and operation manual of Good Aquaculture Practices (GAqP) will be developed based on the review of current status of carp farming in Pakistan and current Aquaculture practices in other Asian countries.
It is hoped that the findings of this workshop will be fruitful for promotion of good aquaculture practices in the Punjab & Balochistan and will be a landmark towards the revolution in Fisheries & Aquaculture sector in the country.