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Oman receives biggest ever shipment of live fish for aquaculture project
Conrad Prabhu Fisheries & Aquaculture
Underscoring the Omani government’s ambitions to develop a thriving aquaculture industry in the Sultanate, Blue Waters (BWs) – a group company of Fisheries Development Oman (FDO) wholly owned by Oman Investment Authority (OIA) – recently took delivery of the largest shipment of fish fingerlings for its maiden fish farming project currently under implementation off Qurayyat in Muscat Governorate.
The consignment – comprising two million fish fingerlings – was the biggest shipment of live fish to be handled by Transom, the air services arm of Oman Aviation Group overseeing ground handling, air cargo, catering, hospitality, and Muscat Duty-Free.
With the arrival of the fish fingerlings, work on state-owned Blue Waters’ flagship finfish aquaculture project is set to make headway, according to a top official of the company.
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