Sabah seeks for aquaculture industralisation

Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Yahya Hussin has called for the industrialisation of aquaculture in the wake of the declining seafood supply in the country.

Yahya, who is also Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry, said transformation through green technology would be a key factor in sustainability.

"If green technology is cost effective, it would be able to support fish rearing, making it affordable to a large section of society facing the food security problem," he added.

He said sustaining seafood supplies, which is facing the impact of global warming, is the concern of everyone.

In this context, Yahya said it was also important that scientists' look into means of mitigating the eventual decrease of these resources.

According to Yahya, it was a challenge for the scientific community to develop methods which were environmentally conducive and efficient in production.

He said a beginning had been made to put on trial the integrated farming system and this approach would sustain not only the environment but also aquaculture.