At the Cabinet session held on 29 March recently appointed Deputy Prime Minister Kerim Durdymyradov, overseeing the industrial sector, briefed on the development of Turkmenistan’s fishing industry.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, 555 tons of fish has been caught in Turkmenistan over the course of three months of 2018.
The international tender to build a sturgeon farm and a fish processing facility at the expense of foreign investors in the village of Guvlymayak in Balkan velayat as well as a fish canning plant at the state-run enterprise “Balkanbalyk” was announced.
“Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov instructed to actively engage Turkmen entrepreneurs and gave an instruction to build new fishing facilities”,— the state information agency TDH reports.
Let us recall that at the government session held on 22 December 2017, the President instructed to fully meet the demand in fresh fish and fish products.
A year ago “Chronicles of Turkmenistan” published a report “The lost industry: on sea fishery of Turkmens”.
The document says that “over the past ten years the state-run enterprise Balkanbalyk” has degraded.In the first quarter of 2015 fishermen of “Balkanbalyk” caught about 125 tons of fish, which is 28 to 30 times less compared to the volume caught for the same period of time in 2004 and 2005, and 60 to 70 times less than in the 1970-s and 1980-s”.