This is a video of Habo Tuna Factory located in Xabo Bari Region. It employs up to 1500 people in puntland and is 1 of the 2 fish processing plants of the state the other being Las Qorey, qandala and xabo fishery plant.
The first serious investment in the sector was initiated in 1940s when Italian businessmen
established two fish canneries in Kandla and Habo on the Gulf of Aden coast east of Bosaso.
A similar but bigger factory was also implemented in Las Qorey in 1960s with Soviet
assistance. The three canneries together employed several thousand Somalis during their
heydays. These initiatives were followed by the implementation of NECFISH project in Bari
Region in the 1980s that resulted in the construction of a cold storage in Bosaso and several
fish collection points in Kandala and Alula districts. With the exception of the Bosaso cold
storage, all the factories and facilities have been looted after the collapse of the Government.
The Bosaso cold storage may not fair better though as it lies idle thanks to a tussle between
the Puntland Government and a group of Businessmen over its ownership.