The 2023 edition of the Seafood Show Latin America ended yesterday, which was held in the city of San Pablo and which was attended by four Argentine fishing companies, half of last year’s, which, however, drew a favorable balance of this meeting that brings together producers with representatives of the import business from the neighboring country.
Iberconsa, Newsan, Red Chamber and Traweluwn were the firms that joined the Argentine stand, which had the presence of Julián Suárez as official support. Last year, in addition to these four that repeated their presence, Ártico, Lanzal and Conarpesa had joined.
The National Director of Fisheries Coordination and Inspection also participated in the meeting of the Latin American Alliance for Sustainable Fishing and Food Security (ALPESCAS), of which the Chamber of High Seas Fresh Shipowners is a member, and which focused on illegal fishing.
The relationship with the Brazilian market is not going through the best moment due to the persistence of tariff barriers suffered by hake filet due to the presence of parasites in the consignments sent by the national industry.
Today there are 35 meat processing plants, according to official sources, that are within the Import Alert Regime (RAI), the system to which Brazil refers foreign establishments whose cargo had deficiencies or non-compliance with its sanitary parameters.
“More than noticing an increase in Brazilian demand for our hake, this has produced a decrease in supply. Many refrigerators cannot reach the market due to these restrictions,” confided a business source who participated in Seafood.
Adrián Ganin, from Trawellum, acknowledged when asked by this media that his refrigerator does not make mostly hake, but the fact that it is not on the RAI list opens a door for them to increase production with a view to meeting the demand in Brazil.
“The organization of the fair by Argentina was very good; “It has been important for us to participate to expand production and markets,” the businessman noted.
Within the framework of the fair, Julián Suárez held a meeting with André de Paula, the new Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture of Brazil. “I conveyed to him that the Argentine fishing sector has the capacity to satisfy the needs of Brazilian consumers, not only due to the volume of fishing in our country but also due to the excellent quality of products and by-products that our industry offers, day after day, to all markets in the world,” said the official.
Regarding the health obstacles that Brazil applies to Argentine products, Suárez assured that “we talked about the difficulties that Argentina is going through in making sales to its country and that we must work together with all public agencies and the private sector of both nations to bring solutions. ”.
In addition to hake, shrimp was another of the products that generated queries, although seafood reaches the Brazilian market largely through smuggling, to the point that Brazil does not appear among the main nine destinations for whole shrimp or those They buy “tails.”
Beyond all the bilateral meetings and interventions by the ambassador himself, Daniel Scioli, one of the architects of Brazil lifting restrictions on shrimp imports last year, the loads continue to cross the border illegally and are distributed mainly in the southern region of the country.
“Iberconsa is very satisfied with the evolution of the development it is carrying out with shrimp in the Brazilian market,” stressed Pablo Basso, director of that company, according to a statement sent by the Undersecretariat. Although there are still not large volumes, customers began to value our product and learn to use it,” he noted.
Regarding the ALPESCAS meeting on Advances and Perspectives in the Fight against Illegal Fishing in Latin America, the workshop had presentations by representatives from Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Julián Suárez himself spoke for our country. The official referred to fisheries management and control, monitoring and traceability in fishing.
This workshop became relevant because it was the first after the signing of the “Panama Agreement”, in which nine member countries of ALPESCAS signed the commitment to contribute to eradicating illegal fishing in Latin America and reinforce the control of foreign fleets that operate in adjacent to their jurisdictions.
”At ALPESCAS we aim to promote sustainable fishing activity and the development of industrial fishing and related activities, through sustainable use of resources and care for the environment,” explained Diego García Luchetti, president of the Chamber of Shipowners. .
The organizations in charge of fisheries administration of these countries and ALPESCAS agreed on the need to expand a “Network for the exchange of information and experiences between countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to prevent, deter and eliminate IUU fishing”, whose objective will be to unify the information and measures that each country takes to combat illegal fishing within the framework of its legislation and seek joint solutions to eradicate this scourge, they maintained.
2023-10-27 07:13:36
#Positive #balance #Seafood #Show #Latin #America
