August 7, 2009
Angola to invest US$40 million for aquaculture school
Angola's Ministry of Fisheries plans to invest at least US$40 million between 2010 and 2012 for the construction of the National School of Aquaculture.
The school will be built in the municipality of Kalandula, Malanje province, with the capacity to house 900 students. The building will consist of classrooms, offices, amphitheatres, fields and two laboratories. One of the laboratories will have an artificial oxygen-sourced system to cultivate different freshwater species.
The first bred fish are expected by late 2010 and will include catfish, black seabream, lenda and sunza, all very abundant in the region.
The students will go on to receive training in the Fisheries Academy which will be built in Namibe province.
Conducted studies found that Kalandula had the better natural conditions to develop the initiative, said Minister of Fisheries Salomao Xirimbimbi.
