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Bahia wins new industry of fish processing

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To increase the production of Bahian fish and its processing to meet local demand and the Northeast , will be located in São Gonçalo dos Campos Four Seas Company . The investment will be $ 5 million and will generate 100 direct jobs and 300 indirect , with the start of construction planned for this month , and their stage of maturation , the number of jobs is expected to double . This was the result of a meeting held this week , the Secretary of Agriculture of Bahia ( Seagram ) between the company director , Jorge Vinicius , Secretary of Agriculture , Jairo Carneiro and CEO of Bahia Pesca , Cassio Peixoto .

The Seagram was willing to provide the necessary technical assistance to the implementation of enterprise project . Bahia now imports about 32 tons of fish , and the project is identified with the industrial policy of internalization , led by Governor Jaques Wagner , which participates in the secretariat and its agencies .

For Secretary Jairo Carneiro , " the initiative will be important to further promote the activity in the state , and provide increased consumption of fish , which is a source of protein, and a healthy and necessary to the table of Bahian food , and generate jobs and improving the income of workers . "

According to the CEO of Bahia Pesca , Cassio Peixoto , the institution has two programs that benefit associations and fishermen's associations , which are drivers of development of fishing activity . " We are Renew , which aims to renew the Bahian fishing fleet , to promote artisanal fishing in Bahia , and Profrota . The latter , in partnership with Banco do Nordeste , is financing the purchase of fishing boats to ocean fishing , in order to form a genuinely Brazilian fleet and increase domestic production of fish , "he explained .

Cassius said that will enable linkage with the 86 colonies Bahian fishermen to establish partnerships with the new venture aimed at supplying fish .

According to Jorge Vinicius , Bahia has a great potential for the supply of fish , but the large-scale fishing is not as traditional in Santa Catarina , for example , site of the company , which has production of 800 tons of fish per month. " We want to use the local workforce , the producers use this state to integrate our project ," he said .

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