{"id":369,"date":"2015-12-08T13:55:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/luderitz\/?p=369"},"modified":"2016-01-10T13:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T13:57:37","slug":"multimillion-dollar-seal-factory-to-be-built-in-luderitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Multimillion-dollar seal factory to be built in L\u00fcderitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-372\" src=\"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/luderitz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Esau1.jpg\" alt=\"Esau1\" \/>The high rate of unemployment in L\u00fcderitz could be reduced to a certain extent when a new multimillion-dollar seal-processing factory becomes operational next year.\u00a0The Minister of Fisheries of Marine Resources, Bernard Esau, during the planned seal factory\u2019s ground-breaking ceremony held last Thursday at Nautilus Industrial Area in L\u00fcderitz, applauded the efforts made by Uukumwe Youth Empowerment Consortium, a 100 percent Namibian entity initiated by young entrepreneurs. The consortium will be a shareholder in the factory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that Uukumwe was first granted a quota in 2012 for a total of 5 000 pups and 356 seal bulls. Due to their continued commitment to increase value to the seal products, this quota has been increased to 7 299 pups and 543 bulls in the current harvesting season.\u00a0As part of their commitment to downstream development, Uukumwe initiated the seal factory in L\u00fcderitz, which will enable them to process pelts, meat, blubber and other by-products.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough this project we expect the creation of new jobs that will not only supply products to the large Namibian market, but also international markets,\u201d the minister emphasised.\u00a0Esau indicated that his ministry prides itself on upholding the\u00a0constitutional commitment to the maintenance of ecosystems, essential ecological processes, biological diversity and the utilization of living natural resources on a sustainable basis for the benefit of all Namibians, both present and future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ministry is aware of the sensitive issues surrounding seal harvesting and has undertaken numerous scientific studies together with international experts to address issues of common interest,\u201d said Esau.\u00a0Uukumwe chairman Olavi Hamutumwa indicated that the company\u2019s research led them to countries such as Canada and Norway, which have thriving seal industries, to learn from\u00a0their best practices. They also visited the United States of America in search of core machineries required in the processing stages. Uukumwe is a fishing\u00a0rights holder for three species, namely, horse mackerel, large pelagic fish (tuna, swordfish and shark) and Cape fur seal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The factory will have the capacity to process 40 000 seals per season, July to November, to produce skins, oil, animal feed and meat.\u00a0The seal factory will cost about N$15 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high rate of unemployment in L\u00fcderitz could be reduced to a certain extent when a new multimillion-dollar seal-processing factory becomes operational next year.\u00a0The Minister of Fisheries of Marine Resources, Bernard Esau, during the planned seal factory\u2019s ground-breaking ceremony held last Thursday at Nautilus Industrial Area in L\u00fcderitz, applauded the efforts made by Uukumwe Youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luderitz-tc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}