Yemen, EU Discuss a New Fish Strategy
YEMEN - Yemen's Minister of Fisheries, Mohammed Shamlan, met with a European Union panel over the weekend to discuss important provisions for setting up a new...

FAO Help Build Fish Info Centre in Yemen
YEMEN - The Ministry of Fisheries signed earlier this week for a grant worth U$177 thousand from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to support establishing...

Yemen's Shrimp and Finfish Project to Begin
YEMENI - The Yemeni government is prepared to establish fish and shrimp aquaculture project with a total cost of $16 million, according to memorandum singed by...

Tuna Farm Feasibility Discussed in Yemen
YEMEN - Minister of Fisheries Wealth Mohammed Shamlan discussed here on Tuesday with Head of the Yemen Fish Company Abdullah Boqshan the company's preparations for...

Protein Prices in Yemen Rising Fast
YEMEN - Beef is becoming a luxury meat in Yemen and many consumers have switched to poultry meat. However, but even that is out of the budget for many Yemenis, who...

$12 million for Farming Shrimp in Red Sea Coasts
YEMEN - Ministry of Wealth Fisheries of Yemen recently signed an understanding memorandum with a local company for farming shrimp in the Red Sea coasts amounting...

$18 Million Aquaculture Project in Hadhramout
YEMEN - A German investment company is carrying out the final arrangements to start construction of an aquaculture project in Hadhramout in the last quarter of the...

Yemen and Japan Agree on Fishery Project
YEMEN - The Yemen and Japanese governments have been discussing plans for a giant investment project for a new aquaculture and fisheries facility in Yemen.

Yemeni-Jordanian Cooperation of Fish Investment
YEMEN - Yemen has put forward investment opportunities in the fish sector with projects in several fields such as aquaculture, the manufacture of fishing equipment,...

Spanish Eyes on Yemen's Fish Business
YEMEN - The Ministry of Fisheries Wealth has been offered significant investment in its fisheries packaging industry by Spanish company Dos Y Mcos.

Fish exports declining
YEMEN - The volume of Yemeni fish exported to other countries during the first quarter of this year declined from 20,806 tons to 19,806 in 2006, said Mahmoud al-Saghari,...

$100 million shrimp farm to be set up in Yemen
YEMEN - The Saudi Company for Fish will set up a shrimp farm in Yemen at a total cost of $100 million, in addition to investment of fisheries marketing, said Fahd...

Spanish AFF Minister to visit Yemen
SANA'A - Minister of Fisheries Mahmud Saghiri met with the Spanish ambassador to Sana'a Marcos Vega and discussed with him arrangements for the visit of the Spanish...

Fish exports increased over 2005
YEMEN - The volume of fish and marine life that Yemen exported last year amounted to 89.610 tons, which is an increase of 5.322 tons over 2005. This represents a...

Yemen to launch fisheries project in February
YEMEN - Yemen is preparing to launch a new fisheries resource management and conservation project next month. The project will be carried out by the Ministry of...