From Miadhu

Mifco has expressed serious concern about the sharply declining fishing in the country which has affected their canned and other variety of tuna products. Media Coordinator of Mifco Abdullah Maumoon in an interview to Miadhu said, fishing has not declined so badly as at the present time, Mifco is not getting enough fish for their productions at Felivaru.

Maumoon gave details of how much Mifco is getting these days. He said these days Mifco is getting about 100 or 200 tonnes of fish daily, while the company used to get more than 2000 tons in the recent past. Although there is some improvement on few days, the normal pattern is very poor fishing which is affecting productions at Mifco.

Maumoon noted, there was some improvement during Ramazan, but fishing has seriously declined again. He said during the time oil subsidy was paid to fishermen, there was marked increase in the number of vessels going fishing. He said fishing is not good any where in the country at the present time. He said Mifco is buying at Mrf 9.50 a kilo that can fetch a price of Mrf 9,500 for a ton.

Maumoon also stated sales of ice from ice plants across the country has also gone down fishermen are buying less ice from the plants.