The Ministry of Fisheries hosted an official handover ceremony on Monday, December 19, 2022 at the Ministry’s office in Sopu, to mark the first transfer of donated goods and equipment from the Government of Japan to the Ministry of Fisheries as part of a Non-Project Grant Assistance from Japan’s Economic Social Development Programme. This aid is worth $1.3 million U.S Dollars and was formalized on May 27, 2022 by the governments of Tonga and Japan, to assist in the development of the Fisheries Sector and to support the relief from the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai volcano in early January this year.
