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  Applicant
and Implementing Agency: General Authority for Fish Resources
Development (GAFRD)
Total
Budget: LE 38.620.465 (around USD 6.995.000)
In the
framework of the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, in particular the
Agadir Declaration, the initiative promoted by the General Authority
for Fish Resources Development - GAFDR intends to consolidate fishery
sector in Egypt, through synergies between public and private sector.
The project, which will be realized in the North Coast, near Marsa
Matrouh, about 350 km from Alexandria, will facilitate business
opportunities, technology transfer and development in fishery and aqua
culture sector between the two Mediterranean shores.
Moreover, the project, based on four complementary components, will be
realized in coordination with another initiative for the development of
the North Mediterranean coast promoted by Italy together with the
European Commission.
 The
main components of the initiative are:
1.
Creation of a Fishery Technical Agency to support the private sector;
2.
Support to the Fish Unit of GAFRD in Cairo to improve the product
quality,
3.
Technology transfer for marine aquaculture by the realization and
management of an hatchery, and
4.
know-how transfer for the installation and management of a pilot cage
for aquaculture.
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