Solomons fisheries
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upgrade under way
BRITISH Colombia Packers (BCP) has begun the long and expensive task of upgrading the Solomon Islands’
National Fisheries Development Com pany (NFD), which it bought from the Honiara government last year. NFD had run up substantial losses under state control, and its 10-pole line vessels had been laid up during the protracted sale negotiations.
The NFD’s largest boat, the Solomon Premier , has been repaired and up graded in Taiwan at a cost of USS7OO,OOO. Another vessel, Solomon Harvester , is back at sea. Work is also in progress to improve the Tulagi cold storage and ice making plant. □