NORWAY commits to AMAZONIAN PROJECT: AQUACULTURE COULD HALT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RAINFOREST

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Norway has committed to spend NOK 6 billion to help save the Brazilian rainforest in thenext three years - a feat it hopes to achieve in part by modernising and up-scaling the South American giant's aquaculture industry. 'The perspectives are reduced deforestation in the Amazon, less C02 emissions and increased food security for the population in a developing country,' said Norwegian feed research institute Nofima senior scientist Atle Mortensen. Since 2009 Nofima has had an agreement with Brazil's largest research institute for fisheries and aquaculture, Embrapa, which has approximately 9000 employees.The collaboration agreement has the complete approval of the fisheries ministers in both countries. 'But the collaboration has still not taken off to the degree one could expect in an area with such enormous potential.The freshwater resources in the Amazon are enormous.There is more fresh water here than in the world's 11 next largest rivers combined.This is in addition to the enormous economic zone off the 8500 km long coastline,' said Mortensen.