Water represents the largest undeveloped resource in the world. Carefully and properly managed, it offers an excellent resource which can yield highly nutritious food products, generate jobs, feed hungry people, establish new industries and generate foreign exchange.

Due to extensive and exorbitant cost of fishing in the seas and oceans, the world has seen a major decline in the catch. Nearly half of all seafood consumed as food worldwide are raised through aquaculture rather than caught in the wild (FAO-2007). Global wild harvest today stands at roughly 95 million tonnes, and cannot be sustained in the long term as some of the natural habitats for fish have disappeared or degenerated.

To alleviate the depleting seafood resources and to augment the seafood production, abt consulting undertakes consultancy for Aquaculture projects. This includes Site Selection to Turnkey projects for Greenfield projects; Project re-engineering and production management for existing projects. Our expertise ranges from extensive systems, semi intensive systems to intensive systems, according to the site specificity and project concept.

Present global aquaculture production is nearly 60 million tonnes, valued at $70 billion, and to meet increased demand for seafood, the world will need additional 40 million tonnes of Seafood from aquaculture by 2030 pointing to the immense investment opportunity in the sector. The Middle East and Africa region, with its abundant unpolluted coast line and natural habitat, are well positioned to capitalise on this trend.