The Venezuelan government has acquired two polyvalent vessels of USD 15 million and has launched them just when industrial trawl fishing has been prohibited in the country. The government also provides adequate training to the personnel to operate the two new polyvalent vessels belonging to the Cuban-Venezuelan Mixed Fisheries Company of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).
According to the president of the Socialist Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (INSOPESCA), Gilberto Gimenez these vessels are the perfect replacement of trawlers. He added that for now, 75 sailors are undergoing training to go out to sea with the vessels and the future fleet, which will account for 20 percent of national fisheries production. Gimenez broke the news during a meeting with fishers from Anzoategui, Falcon and Sucre.
He affirmed that it is a major investment undertaken by a government interested in securing the best fishing fleet in the world. It is told that the vessels will provide a mainstay of food necessary for Venezuelans and the citizens of neighbouring countries via eco-friendly means of tuna fishing. It is informed that the government plans to buy six vessels to complete the ALBA fishing fleet.
Gimenez expressed that there is an enormous battle for food that is being waged on a global scale, and we are investing precisely to have the necessary conditions for production.
