THE
Maungtaw District Fishery Department has summited a proposal for a development
project to boost saltwater shrimp and prawn production in Maungtaw Township to
the state government, said U Naing Win Thein, assistant director of Maungtaw
District Fishery Department.
The
new project includes upgrading of the existing Alethankyaw saltwater prawn
hatcheries and construction of two new hatcheries near Kyaukpanu and Indin
villages plus two other demonstration ponds in the township.
Maungtaw
Township in Rakhine State is located in westernmost Myanmar with a long
coastline along the Bay of Bengal. Residents mainly rely on fishing and
farming.
The
township annually exports aquaculture products worth US$7.5 million to
neighbouring countries.
Bangladesh
buys most of the aquaculture prawn and marine shrimp from Maungtaw and regions
nearby. Myanmar normally exports mud crabs, saltwater fish, shrimp and prawns
as well as various kinds of dried fish to its neighbour.
There
are about 2,600 local farmers who mainly produce saltwater prawn in the
township. They cultivate shrimp and prawns on over 15,300 acres of farmland,
manufacturing more than 1,000 tonnes of saltwater prawns annually by using trap-and-hold
farming practices.
The
local breeders need more hatcheries to produce 150 million larvae of marine
shrimp and prawn.
Aquaculture
ponds have frequently been damaged by flooding caused by melting ice that
increases the water level of the sea. The township also requires a thick bund
to prevent strong tides during storms.
Zin
Oo (Myanma Alinn)
Ref;
The Global New Light of Myanmar
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