The Costa Rican Tuna Industry Chamber warned about the possibility that the government will publish a decree that would extend the ban zone for the purse tuna fishery to a distance of between 100 and 150 miles from the Pacific coast.
According to the sector's union, this decree, which is in the drafting stage, would put at risk the fulfillment of the export commitments of canned fish to the world's main markets.
Given the rise in tuna consumption reported between February and August, in Costa Rica the company that owns Sardimar increased its production by 25%.
After the context of the new commercial reality that arose from the outbreak of covid-19 the demand for tuna increased, Alimentos Prosalud, owner of Sardimar, hired more than 300 additional employees to work in its plant in Barranca, Puntarenas.
As a result of the crisis generated by the spread of the coronavirus, producers predict that the demand for tuna in Central America will grow by about 50%.
Representatives of the Spanish conglomerate Calvo Group, say that in Panama the inventory of tuna prepared for all of March was exhausted in three days, due to the health emergency that markets in the region are going through.
Licenses will be granted in the Exclusive Economic Zone only up until 5,847 metric tons have been fished and to foreign vessels that demonstrate they have put all of their catch into domestic processors.
From a statement issued by the President of Costa Rica:
The government has announced that it will modify the cost of licenses for tuna fishing in Costa Rican waters in order to adapt them to international market prices.
From a statement issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock in Costa Rica:
In order to improve the utilization of one Costa Rica's largest resources and ensure long-term sustainability, the Executive has issued an Executive Order in which the model for regulating this activity in the country has been reformulated.
Opportunities in the Arab country have been announced for chutneys, organic coffee, pastries, organic tuna, dried fruits, plants, flowers and foliage.
The Foreign Trade Promotion Office (PROCOMER) has opened a trade promotion office in Qatar. Alvaro Stone, director of Exports at the office, informed Nacion.com that an official has been based in the premises of the Embassy of Costa Rica in that country since late last year.
The Americas Tuna Conference 2016 (AMatuna2016) is a two-day tuna industry event that will take place in Panama City, Panama on January 28th and 29th at the Riu Plaza Hotel.
The Americas Tuna Conference 2016 (AMatuna2016) is a two-day tuna industry event that will take place in Panama City, Panama on January 28th and 29th at the Riu Plaza Hotel.
The required health and phytosanitary protocols were signed in order to authorize the export of tuna, fresh pineapple and prawns.
From a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Trade:
San Jose, September 29, 2015. As part of the visit by Minister Zhi Shuping, maximum chief of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the PRC (AQSIQ) required health and phytosanitary protocols were signed, authorizing the export of tuna and fresh pineapple from Costa Rica to China, and negotiations for the entry of Costa Rican shrimp to that market were concluded.
Canned tuna is preferred over presentations in glass or tetra pak containers, with increased demand reported in varieties of yellow and albacore tuna.
From a statement issued by the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Promotion Office (PROCOMER):
The consumption of canned tuna in the Middle East is concentrated in Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which depend entirely on imports, coming mainly from Thailand (86.4%), Italy (7.4%) and other Southeast Asian countries among these, the Philippines and Indonesia, with 6.6%.
Through a government decree commercial fishing for tuna and other species has been limited to two specific areas of the Pacific coast in Costa Rica.
The first area will extend up to 40 nautical miles (74 km) from the coast and the second will be located beyond 40 nautical miles, in which larger scale longliners can operate, and between the two there will be a buffer zone.
The fishing industry is calling for an enlargement in the withdrawal from the coasts for tuna purse seine fishery and that licenses be given only to ships committed to selling 100% of their catch to the local industry.
In an opinion piece published in Nacion.com, Asdrubal Vasquez Nunez mentions the importance of the Costa Rican tuna industry to the economy and points to the need to reorganize legislation for the sector in order to increase the competitiveness and productivity of it.
The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission has announced that the response to the request to increase the tonnage of fishing in the Eastern Pacific will be given in October.
Noting a lack of sufficient information and studies to determine more clearly the potential impact of increasing the quota, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) said it will postpone the decision until October.
The publication of the decree signed by former President Chinchilla to regulate tuna fishing using purse seine has been delayed while the new administration formulates its position on the matter.
From a statement issued by the Costa Rican Federation of Fishing (Fecop):
Government postpones for 60 days publication of Decree to regulate purse seine tunafishing
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