Israeli company partners US Group

The Unique Shepherd (US) Group of Companies has initialed a partnership deal with an Israeli aquaculture company, Acqua Green Fishing Systems, to revive the local company’s tilapia business.

The Israeli company comes in with a state-of-the-art technology that will enable the U.S. Group to produce tilapia and other fish species in any part of the country, even where there are no water bodies.
Representatives of the Israeli company and the U.S Group told newsmen at a press conference in Accra yesterday that the environmentally friendly high-end technology would produce fresh fish which would not contaminate water bodies, the environment or the fish stock in any way.
“Ghana is fast progressing economically; hence the interest of many companies, including Acqua Green, to invest in the country. The project requires a local collaboration and this we found in the Unique Shepherd Group of Companies,” a former Israeli Ambassador to Ghana and Director of Acqua Green, Mr Daniel Kedem, said.
He said the new technology would enable the partnership to produce 600,000 tonnes of fresh tilapia in the first year in highly regulated bonds to be scaled up in subsequent years.

Green technology
The ‘green technology’ is said to have the ability to ensure that fish is not polluted. The technology is also environmentally friendly and neutral to ozone layer depletion.
“This partnership is set to change fish farming in Ghana and put Ghana up on the international map among fish producers. In addition, the produce will meet the local and export market needs,” Mr Kedem said.
He said with the technology, fish farming could be done in any part of the country and not necessarily where there was  a water body.
The Chairman of the U.S. Group, Chief Godfred Mediciné, expressed his gratitude to God for the partnership, a timely intervention to help the U.S. fish farming project out of the woods.
He said the project, which was expected to take off in October, would be preceded by reciprocal visits to Israel and Ghana to iron out a few technicalities.
Rev. Nathan Marfo Gyasi, the Chairman of Christian Awards Trust (CAT), the company which negotiated the deal, was optimistic that the high-end technology application in fish farming would help reduce graduate unemployment and generate income for the nation.