Agadir Haliopole Cluster (AHP) is launching a survey to measure the impact of the sanitary and economic crisis of Covid-19 on the fishing sector and the seafood processing industry of Souss-Massa region.

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, has appealed to donors for $100 million in urgent aid to ease the plight of desperate farmers, herders, fishers and their families in Yemen.

The Department of Maritime Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forestry (MAPMDREF) announces the virtual launch of a USD 2.5 million project to support the development of aquaculture businesses in Morocco.

Sea fishing activity continues in order to maintain regular market supply and the supply of fish is currently being strengthened, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Sea Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forestry.

More than 5,706 tons (T) of octopus, with a total value of more than 394.39 million dirhams (MDH), were landed at small scale fishing villages in the Dakhla Oued-Eddahab region during the winter cephalopod fishing season which started on 1st January and ended on 15 April.