Challenges faced by seafood exporters

The Government is taking various measures to address the issues of seafood exporters wherever feasible. Based on the information received from concerned agencies, after delisting of 14 establishments by European Commission (EC) on account of presence of banned antibiotics in the seafood consignments exported to European Union (EU) in 2017 and 2018, Export Inspection Council (EIC) has been pursuing this issue at various platforms with EC who has agreed to permit the sea caught fishery products to begin with.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

To prevent the use of banned antibiotics in aquaculture and their detection in export consignments, a number of measures have been taken through State Governments, Coastal Aquaculture Authority (CAA), Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) and EIC.