MME to support fishing boats and ships with ice and fuel

Doha: The Ministry of Municipality and Environment, represented by the Agriculture and Fisheries Affairs Sector, signed a joint cooperation agreement with Qatar Fuel Company (WOQOD) and ice factories, to provide support to fishermen and ship owners with supplying fuel, ice blocks and crushed ice to reduce cost of fishing.

The program aims to supply ice blocks for 480 active fishing ships and crushed ice for 350 fishing boats. In addition, they will also be provided fuel and the programme will be for a period of three years from 2021. MME is working on implementing a programme to support owners of fishing ships and boats that aims to preserve the quality and safety of fish and fish products to lower the production costs for owners of fishing ships and boats and incentivize them to keep their professions.