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16 January 2023

Chief Executive Officer for the National Fisheries Authority (NFA), Dr. Gavin Bellamy (right) engages (from  left) NFA Board chairman, Lieutenant Commander (retired) George Overton; Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, Hon. Franklin Witter; and  Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr, in a conversation during the NFA’s Commissioning Ceremony of New Board of Directors, held on Thursday, January 12, 2023, at the Courtleigh Hotel and Suites in St. Andrew. 

 

Fisheries, the greatest opportunity for growth in the agriculture and fisheries sector – Charles Jr

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 16 Jan 2023   

The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr, has charged the National Fisheries Authority board members to recognize the vast potential of fisheries, stating that the fisheries industry presents the greatest opportunity for upward mobility and growth of the agriculture and fisheries sector.  

 “The potential in pelagic fishing, in oysters and sea moss, aquaculture, mariculture, and the several other, will allow for investments to reap high yields, leading to an...

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