Squid for export. (Photo: Stock File)

Fisheries exports for human consumption grow 80pct

PERU
Monday, June 18, 2018, 21:10 (GMT + 9)

Fisheries exports for human consumption are estimated to have grown 80 per cent in the first five months of this year, with respect to the same period of 2017, pointed out the new president of the fishing and aquaculture committee of the National Society of Industries (SNI), Carlos Milanovitch.

With this projection, the shipments of this subsector, which include frozen products, preserved and dried salty products -but they do not include fishmeal- have exceeded USD 900 million so far this year.

"The good catches recorded in the first five months of this year of species such as hake and squid have caused a strong increase in exports of these products," said the businessman.

He argued that fishing destined for direct human consumption (DHC) presents a significant improvement, which is why there is a significant financial recovery in the sector, affected by the low catches recorded from the second semester of 2016 to November of last year.

The new SNI president stressed that fishing for DHC concentrates 85 per cent of employment in fishing activity and contributes more than 51 per cent of the income of foreign currency for fisheries exports.

"One of the objectives of the renewed directive is to get the State to recognize and support the most important sector of the fishery in Peru, that is to say, the fisheries sector destined for human consumption," said Milanovitch.

He also mentioned that one of the goals proposed by the fishing committee is to provide the country with sea, frozen and canned products, through production and consumption agreements with the State.

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