Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced that the GOI will organise the ‘India International Seafood’ show in Visakhapatnam. The main objective is to boost the trade and commerce in seafood sector. The Minister laid the foundation stone of sub-office of Export Inspection Council (EIC) at Visakhapatnam.
- EIC along with its field agency, Exports Inspection Agencies, has a network of 30 sub-offices.
- They are responsible for the quality control and inspection of notified commodities from India.
Sea Food Industry in India
- India’s seafood industry has become one of the leading suppliers of quality seafood to all the major markets of the world.
- India has world class seafood processing plants that follow quality control regimes complaint to stringent international regulatory requirements.
- India has an installed processing capacity of 18,520 M.T with 447 state-of-the-art processing plants, out of which 60% are EU approved plants.
- Seafood export industry in India has surged to a new high over the years.
- Starting from canned shrimp other varieties of Fish, Squid, Cuttlefish, Octopus, Crabs, Clams and Mussels etc. are being exported now.
- There is a tremendous growth in the resources and infrastructure of the Indian seafood industry today.
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