Increase of size of nature protection payment for water to ruin 85% of Armenia’s fisheries
05.08.2015,
18:20
The planned increase of the size of nature protection payment for water will lead to lost of 85% of Armenia's fish-breeding farms, Arthur Atoyan, head of the Association of Armenian Fish Producers and Exporters, told journalists on Wednesday.
YEREVAN, August 5. /ARKA/. The planned increase of the size of nature protection payment for water will lead to lost of 85% of Armenia's fish-breeding farms, Arthur Atoyan, head of the Association of Armenian Fish Producers and Exporters, told journalists on Wednesday.
«This will monopolize the market, and this is the major factor that destroys the country's economy,» he said.
Atoyan said that he has recently received an official letter from the Grisha Baghiyan, the first deputy agriculture minister, that the matter will be discussed as soon as the results of a pilot program implying water-saving regime introduction in two fishery farms in Ararat Valley are summarized.
«It means the responsible institutions propose abstract solutions to the problems we identify, and this is a shortsighted and ineffective approach,» he said.
Atoyan also added that 85 fish-breeding farms have stopped working since 2013 and other 25 fishery businesses are on the brink of closure now.
«And most depressing is that not a single organization in the country can help them,» he said.
According to the Association of Armenian Fish Producers and Exporters, there are 230 registered fisheries in Armenia, but only 140-150 of them are actually functioning.
Fishes from Armenia are mostly exported to Russia, Georgia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. ---0----
«This will monopolize the market, and this is the major factor that destroys the country's economy,» he said.
Atoyan said that he has recently received an official letter from the Grisha Baghiyan, the first deputy agriculture minister, that the matter will be discussed as soon as the results of a pilot program implying water-saving regime introduction in two fishery farms in Ararat Valley are summarized.
«It means the responsible institutions propose abstract solutions to the problems we identify, and this is a shortsighted and ineffective approach,» he said.
Atoyan also added that 85 fish-breeding farms have stopped working since 2013 and other 25 fishery businesses are on the brink of closure now.
«And most depressing is that not a single organization in the country can help them,» he said.
According to the Association of Armenian Fish Producers and Exporters, there are 230 registered fisheries in Armenia, but only 140-150 of them are actually functioning.
Fishes from Armenia are mostly exported to Russia, Georgia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. ---0----
