Mexico reserves 5,000 additional hectares for fish farming

Jose Calzaza, Mexico’s secretary of agriculture, livestock, rural development, fisheries and food (SAGARPA), announced this week the country will expand the its aquaculture surface allowing 5,000 new hectares for fish farming in 2016, reported Noroeste.com

At the opening of the Economic Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum of 2015, Calzaza said the Mexico will have 125,000 hectares in total for aquaculture activities by the end of 2016.

The federal government aims to increase aquaculture productivity, and to offer a bigger variety of the products, and to gain the adequate importance in the sector.

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