CM suggests new ways to boost aquaculture

SHILLONG: The State Government is taking measures to invigorate its five-year-old aquaculture mission that has not yielded desired results so far.
Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said on Thursday that the Fisheries Department has been asked to develop fishing ponds smaller than the existing ones.
Talking to media persons here on Thursday, Sangma said the focus should be on the target to achieve the best result.
Sangma said the Government is now looking for players who can have a pond of  even one acre of hectare. Activities like angling can be linked to eco and rural tourism, he added.
The Meghalaya State Aquaculture Mission (MSAM) was launched in co-terminus with the Twelfth Five Year Plan period (2012-13 to 2016-17) with the objective of developing existing water bodies and creating additional water area for large-scale fish production, including reclamation of marshy and swampy lands, besides conservation of native, endangered and traditional species of Meghalaya and developing breeding farms of commercially potential species on a large scale.