Saturday, May 30, 2009

Good to Extend, Better to Optimise

Our Exclusive Economic Zone that is. Mauritius recently submitted, jointly with the Seychelles, for an additional 387,000 square kilometres -- that's about 10,000 square kilometres larger than the size of Japan. That would add to the million plus square kilometres we have already but which is underutilised especially when you consider that we imported for about Rs8.5 billion of fish and fish preparations last year.

How large a flotilla would the Rs5 billion Sithanen granted to the dead sugar industry have purchased?

6 comments:

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Bel bel zonn ekonomik selma sampyon dan diabet.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

EEZ of 2m sq km but this.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Aquaculture seems to be gaining speed in Dodoland. Can it match the quality of the fishes that swim in our EEZ?

akagugo said...

Needless to say that any intensive rearing system has that one major flaw: that extreme concentration puts it at a much higher risk of getting wiped out by a disease. Just like salmonella for chicken, foot-and-mouth for quadrupeds, etc, etc. It's just a ticking time bomb...

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

What about effects on our ecosystem?

akagugo said...

Let this illustration do the job: add to it the fact that Dodoland depends on lagoon tourism.