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The Aquaculture Initiative for Food and Employment (AFJ) launched and piloted in 2018 by the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development has benefited 456 people.
The ministry said the initiative improved aquaculture training and outreach, as well as instituted measures to contain and prevent fish diseases to reduce fish kills.
This is in line with the government’s medium-term vision of using the aquaculture subsector to increase national fish production and generate additional jobs and jobs along the aquaculture value chain for youth.
This came to light when Industry Minister Elizabeth Afoley Quaye took her turn to brief journalists at the “Meet The Press” cycle organized at the Ministry of Information on Wednesday.
She said the 465 beneficiaries have been trained in Aquaculture Best Practices, Pond Construction, Pond Management and Harvesting.
Some of the institutions that have benefited from this training include; James Camp Prisons in Greater Accra (3 ponds), Techiman Nobel Youth Association, Techiman in Bono East (10 ponds built, stocked and fed), Atwereboanda Pentecost Youth Group in Adansi, Ashanti Region (10 ponds built).
Others are Osei Tutu Senior High School in the Ashanti region (4 earthen ponds built, stocked and fed), Wenchi SHS (4 ponds constructed), Dormaa Senior High School in the Bono region (10 ponds and 4 ponds constructed), Balofiri Youth Group (8 earthen ponds) and the Seminary of San Francisco Javier (4 concrete tanks), the ass of the regional fish farmers of Ashanti (8 cages built, stored and fed).
On the control of fish diseases, the minister revealed that her team has so far vaccinated aquaculture establishments throughout the Lake Volta enclave with the Aquavac-Irido vaccine.
“About 3.1 million fingerlings have been immunized with a 99.3% survival rate on 13 farms.
The Ministry will continue with the vaccination exercise and will provide extension services to aquaculture establishments and training for small and medium-sized farmers, as well as hatchery operators.
The training was on Biosecurity Measures at the farm level and Hatchery Management, production of quality fingerlings and Best Aquaculture Practices including food formulation, disease detection and early warning systems ”, he emphasized.
