China provides "Training Course on Mariculture Technology for Liberia" to 25 members of the National Fishery and Aquaculture Authority in Liberia

On July 15, the Chinese Embassy in Liberia held a farewell reception for 25 young trainees to attend the "Training Course on Mariculture Technology for Liberia" in China. Senior officials from relevant departments, media reporters, and some Representatives of Chinese-funded institutions attended the reception. Twenty-five staff members of the National Fishery and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA), and the Liberia Artisanal Fishermen Association (LAFA), departed the country, on July 16, 2019, for Xiamen, Fujian Province, the People’s Republic of China to participate in a month-long training course mariculture. According to the release, those expected to travel include technicians, enterprise supervisors, and professional personnel engaged in mariculture and fisheries managers among others. They are to form part of the 2019 Training Course on Mariculture Technology studies. The training is being provided by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, through its Embassy commercial office in Monrovia. The course will focus on culture technology for “Fish, Shrimps, Shellfish and Crabs”, and will be conducted through lectures, and practical exercises. Other areas include fishery production, marine fishing, mariculture, fisheries infrastructure construction, trade and processing of aquatic products, Marine economic development planning, and strategy, Marine related policies, laws and regulations, International cooperation, main cooperative countries, present cooperation ways and management modes in marine-related industries. The team returned on August 20th, 2019.

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