His Excellency, the Secretary of State
of Agricultural Hydraulic, Mr. KAMIL HADJIAT
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Colleagues,
It is with great pleasure that I open this session. I would like to express my thanks to the Algerian Government for hosting our Seminar on Planification of Aquaculture Development and the Ad HOC Committee for the Establishment of the Mediterranean Network Cooperation in Aquaculture and for his constant interest in supporting our activities. I address my thanks to His Excellency Mr. Kamil Hadjiat for his kind acceptance to honor by his presence this Opening Session of this Seminar. I would also like to thank the Algerian National and Sub-Regional Coordinators and all the Algerian Colleagues who helped in organising these activities and mainly for the warm welcome received upon arrived in Algiers. I am also pleased to welcome the participants and I hope their participation will contribute to the success of our works. This Seminar is given a great importance through the themes to be treated which will determine the Aquaculture future in the Mediterranean countries. Indeed, Planification at short, medium and long term is the major key of development.
To planify our actions is not only to foresee the future but also to rationalise the development and to prepare all the aspects that guarantee the success of our polities. We should make sure that all our potentialities are available for contribution and our previsions are closely meeting the requirements and the needs of the development.
It is agreed that the first steps that should be taken to enhance the availability of our potentialities are to identify them and to elaborate a strategy allowing their rational exploitation. This strategy shall not only lead to determine the production improvement but also to determine the necessary actions to be taken at the legal level as well as at the level of the advantages to be granted to Promoters. We should also plan the Senior staff and technicians trainings related to such development. We should conceive a research politic to favour the transfer of technologies and mainly to control the Production technics. These actions should constitute an overall planning to all the parties involved in the Development process.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
During this Seminar, you will deal with all these aspects and you will deepen your knowledge by the experiences tested by each of you and by several Experts to whom I address my thanks for accepting our invitation, and for contributing to improve the required aspects of the aquaculture development. You will also deal with the cooperation development which constitute, in my opinion, an important preparation step to the Ad Hoc Committee works to be held here on the 4th and the 5th of June. In fact, this Committee is invited to think over the perennity of the Mediterranean cooperation and to bring out the appropriate models to allow its concretisation.
If it is true that MEDRAP I and MEDRAP II have favoured the exchange of information and the transfer of knowledge and the establishment of aquaculture institutions by contributing to the creation of a real human knowledge Network, nevertheless it remains particularly weak and could lay down once MEDRAP II comes to an end. So far, in almost two years maximum, I belive that there would be no one who is not convinced of the necessity to maintain and preserve these actions and to development the several dimensions already taken.
It is then essential to undertake to deepen those steps, on the 4 th and the 5th of instant, to safeguard this acquisition and to establish the legal institutional instruments and the proper mechanisms to continue our cooperation in the best possible conditions. Such required actions will develop the aquaculture in the Mediterranean countries and will contribute to the alimentary self sufficiency as well as to the exchange of commercial balances equilibrium needed for the Socio-Economical development.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I renew my thanks to his Excenllency Mr. Kamil Hadjiat, to the Algerian Coordination Centre and to all the participants and wish you great success in your endeavours.
