China has marked the first successful trade in carbon credits from the aquaculture sector and is seeking to promote the trade as a major new source of income for the marine aquaculture sector.

Saudi Arabia is getting into the aquaculture sector to diversify its economy for a transition to a post-oil economy.

The National Agency for the Development of Aquaculture (ANDA) indicatedthat 168 aquaculture projects started their activities thisyear in the differentregions of Morocco, for an investment of 869 million dirhams. Out of 259 agreements for the creation and operation of aquaculture farmspublished in the Official Bulletin at the end of 2021, 168 projects have started the installation of their farms in the differentregions of the Kingdom for a long-term production of more than 80,000 tons/year and the creation of more than 2,000 jobs, specified the ANDA.

The first delivered version of the Blue Wave boat, a completely steel trawler costing MAD 25 million, has already won over many customers, both Moroccan and foreign.

Emmanuel Macron, who called on Tuesday September 14, in front of the Assises of the sea in Nice, to "go faster" to "make France a great maritime power", promised a new envelope of around 50 million euros for the fishing industry, faced with the consequences of Brexit. "We have done the maximum and we will continue to do the maximum" to help fishermen, while the British are accused of not implementing the compromise on fisheries reached at the end of 2020, said the head of state.