This year the plan of the Camagüey Fishing Company conceives 63 million fingerlings, a purpose that must materialize as the first link in the production chain, which will guarantee the continuity of the remaining processes and will contribute to satisfy to some extent the high demand for the population
Camagüey, Cuba, April 1st.- Ensuring a plan of 4,200 tons of catch in aquaculture is the challenge of the Camagüey Fishing Company (PESCACAM) with the planting of more than 63 million fingerlings in 2024, which would exceed the historical record that the province achieved in 2023.
This result of the past calendar will begin to be felt from the second half of the current year, with the delivery of protein for marketing to the population.
Armando Pacheco Nápoles, director of PESCACAM, highlighted the will and effort of those who made the 61 million fingerlings possible in 2023, amid difficulties with resources, mainly fertilizers.
Dabel Peñate Sosa, the main specialist in charge of frying in the Company, recognized that as a result of the productive chains, other stations were added to the four that the entity has for this activity, among them one of the Agroindustrial Grain Company Ruta Invasora, with notable results because the waste from the cereal cutting process is used as organic fertilizer, in addition to the benefits of the soil.
The La Jía tilapia reproduction nursery center, belonging to the Estrella Roja Base Business Unit, is one of the ones with the greatest potential, also in charge of growing cyprinids so that with 30 days of cultivation they reach three grams. This is explained by Mairelis Peláez Pérez, the station’s main specialist, who aims to equal the 12.5 million cyprinid fry and 1.2 million tilapia fish from last year.
For this purpose, the hectares are expected to increase, explained Amauri Mendoza Domínguez, head of the farm located a few kilometers from the Batalla de las Guásimas community, in Vertientes.
This group has 19 workers, of them nine breeders, and the experienced Alexei Cuella Díaz, main reproduction specialist of the station in charge of reproducing cyprinid species and providing raw materials to other centers in the country, mainly larvae for Guantánamo and Ciego de Ávila, ratified the commitment to develop aquaculture for what it represents for the economy and people’s nutrition.
This year the plan of the Camagüey Fishing Company conceives 63 million fingerlings, a purpose that must materialize as the first link in the production chain, which will guarantee the continuity of the remaining processes and will contribute to satisfy to some extent the high demand for the population.
(Radio Cadena Agramonte)