As part of the implementation of this recommendation, many strategies are under suggested including establishment of a regional aquaculture working group to support FCWC in its work, brainstorm and proffer solution to the challenges facing aquaculture and increase the fish production in the region to the extent of ensuring self-sufficiency in food fish supply.
In fact, the regional seminar on aquaculture development jointly organized by FCWC and JICA from 03 to 05 march 2020 demonstrated that aquaculture could be one of a few realistic options remained to increase the fish production as many countries have given a higher priority on aquaculture development in their fisheries sector development policy frameworks. The regional seminar agreed to set up a dialogue mechanism to strengthen the coordination of aquaculture development actions at the level of all the Member States including maintain private and public collaboration; standards and harmonize the promotion of investment in aquaculture and also provide technical advice on how to address matters related to quality and safety of products, social responsibility and propose and implement activities, an analytical framework is required to learn from the past experiences as there has been limited multiplier effect of successful projects to establish a regional aquaculture working group that would accelerate the contributions of aquaculture to the member states.
To create a regional coordinated and networking initiative to support the development actions of member states on aquaculture relate issues including private and public partnership development.