Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Elim Jones said the money would help support a wide range of innovative projects, adding: " "These projects will greatly benefit the Welsh fishing industry, and will also help us achieve the aims we have set out in the Welsh Fisheries Strategy, which has been designed to support the development of viable and sustainable fisheries in Wales while safeguarding the environment."
The European Fisheries Fund provides grants for the development of a fisheries sector that is sustainable, profitable, well managed and internationally competitive. It will also provide approximately 17 million Euros of European funding for the fisheries sector up until 2013 with match funding provided by the Welsh Assembly Government.
Much of the money will be spent on improving access for migratory fish and to improve water quality around the coastline and in rivers. More than £500,000 is going to the Carmarthenshire Rivers Trust for a project to restore access for migratory and resident fish and a further £1.26 million will be spent on improving the environment to benefit migratory fish in Afonydd Cymru.
Help is also going to the Welsh Federation of Fishermen's Associations, to the Sea Fish Industry Authority to help improve training and to South Wales fishermen to help with port improvements. The Welsh Environment Agency will receive over £2-million to deliver major construction work to remove barriers to migratory fish.

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