Yemen: Fishing Sector to be Developed A new fisheries resource conservation and management project is going to be introduced by Yemen in February 2007. Under the project, which will be implemented by the Ministry of Fisheries Wealth,the European Commission and the World Bank, an information centre will be developed. The centre that would be financed by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), would help to measure the performance of the country's fishing activities through a database that connects the ministry with all fisheries facilitated. In addition, seaports in Nashton, and Hodeidah, al-Khobah would be renovated. According to Ibrahim Saghari, the Minister of Fisheries Wealth, the project is targeted to improve the quality of the country's fishing products, to construct infrastructures for the sector and to manage fishing operations. The government has allocated a total of US$ 120mn (EUR 90.38mn) to fishing sector under a five-year plan (2006-2010). The US$ 35mn fishing management project is part of it.