Vale Oman Pelletizing Co. is identifying means to sustain fish resources in North Al Batinah Governorate by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to provide artificial reefs and demarcation buoys in the Wilayat of Liwa.

29 investment operations in the agriculture and fisheries sector in the governorate of Bizerte were approved during the first quarter of this year, as stated by the regional director of the promotion agency of agricultural investments Mr Moez Frigui.

The European Parliament adopted, on Thursday, February 16th, the Morocco-EU agriculture free trade agreement.

Mr José Graziano da Silva has formally taken the helm of the Food and Agriculture Organization, assuming the post of Director-General of the hunger-fighting UN agency. The new Director-General is pushing for a renewed focus on food security, offering to scale up FAO support available to low-income and food deficit countries - especially those facing protracted crises. "We will create teams that draw together the Organization's skills in policy advice, investment planning, resource mobilization, emergency response and sustainable development," the Director-General said. "Hunger eradication should not be separated from responses to other global challenges, such as reviving national economies, protecting natural resources from degradation, and mitigating and adapting to climate change," he added.

The fishing boats of the European Union ordered to leave the territorial waters of Morocco after the decision of the European Parliament (Strasbourg) not to extend the fisheries agreement protocol between the EU and Morocco in the same terms.