H.E. Eng. Ahmed bin Saleh Al-Aiadh, Undersecretary of State for Environment, Water and Agriculture, stated that the Ministry is about to implement program for development of vaccines of implanted aquatic organisms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which will be launched over two phases. The first phase will include preliminary evaluation of the current situation and establishment of utilities of experimental research and production unit in collaboration with research organizations and local and international partners to produce vaccines that cover the current need of aquatic finish implantation projects from bacterial, viral and parasital vaccines for the next ten years.
The second phase of vaccines development program will expand the production of vaccines on commercial scale to cover the developing market need and expert the excess.
He confirmed that the roadmap for development of vaccines comes within the Ministry's strategy to maintain continuity and sustainability of aquatic implantation projects and increase their production, and to foster the application of best practices of aquatic implantation to achieve the goal and vision of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to reach 600,000 ton of fish by 2030, and to encounter the immense challenges posed by diseases on industry in general.
Pollens are among the best methods applied for increase of fish immunity to resist the fatal diseases whether viral, bacterial or parasital, and help increase the survival rates and growth speed that will be positively reflected in increase of production and profits of those projects.