The 17 applications are in different stages of approval, reports the MuscatDaily.
Eng Dawood bin Suleiman al Yahyaee, director of aquaculture development department in MoAF said: “Omani institutions and companies wishing to establish commercial aquaculture projects, land and sea, can submit applications from August 7 till September 8.”
Mr Yahyaee said that MoAF has allocated several places for aquaculture projects in the areas of Muscat, South Sharqiyah and Al Wusta.