PLANS are underway to encourage more private fish farms in Bahrain in a bid to halt dwindling fish stocks, revealed a senior government official.
Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Ministry Under-Secretary for Agriculture and Marine Resources Dr Nabeel Abu Al Fateh told the GDN that the National Mariculture Centre in Ras Hayyan will be expanded with more plots being made available for onshore farms and four locations designated offshore in the northeast of Bahrain .
