His Excellency, Deputy Minister for Fishery Resources; Engineer Ahmed Al-Eiadh, Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture, sign a memorandum of understanding with the director general of a national company investing in the field of aquaculture to set up an experimental unit to apply the aquaponics which aims too spread the technique in the environmental conditions of the kingdom. Eng. Al-Eiadh in a statement, after signing the understanding memorandum, assured that aquaponics is one of the most significant fields in trends of Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture to support aquaculture industry and guarantee the production sustainability due to facing many challenges in aquaculture in internal water. This shall be achieved through assessing and testing the technique before nationalizing and generalizing it. Complete technical support to apply the technique shall be provided by the ministry besides preparing a technical manual to help those desire to enter this field. In addition, there will be field visits and workshops to introduce this promising technique and present the final findings and recommendations. 
His Excellency, Deputy Minister for Fishery Resources reported that the Memorandum of Understanding came in the frames of "KSA Vision 2030" focusing on "aquaculture support efforts" and benefiting from the relative merits of Saudi Arabia in harmony with Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture's strategies to reach a production capacity of 600 thousand tons of  fishery products during the coming 15  years. Eng. Al-Eiadh indicated to the ministry's care to benefit from technology means in promoting aquaculture industry to reach the stated target; increasing production through aquaponics which is one of solutions achieving environmental and water sustainability of aquaculture internal water projects besides rationalizing water and integrated production of aquatic organisms and agricultural crops depending on water recycling processes. 
His majesty also explained that aquatic organisms form a source of providing basic organic materials necessary to develop agricultural crops, which in turn, purify and improve water quality for aquatic organisms within a closed water cycle namely "Integrated Organic Agriculture"