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Seafood exports encouraging

By Our Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM, JULY 23. Complaints of contaminated European Union-bound seafood consignments from India have dropped drastically this year, according to the Export Inspection Council of India (EIC), the country's official pre-shipment inspection and certification body.

Sharing this information with delegates at the seminar on `Sustainable fisheries development: focus on Andhra Pradesh', organised here on Friday by the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) and the Society of Fisheries Technologists (India) [SOFT(I)], the EIC Joint Director, R. Balakrishnan, said that only 17 complaints were received so far this year as against 57 during 2003.

Fisheries' growth

Fisheries growth in the country was on healthier lines now with various agencies successfully tackling the problem of contamination, Mr. Balakrishnan said.

The CIFT Director, K. Devadasan, said that Andhra Pradesh had emerged as the most important State in the country in the fisheries sector and had further scope for growth. He said that the proposal for a separate ministry for fisheries at the Centre would help promote the growth of this sector. The Vice-Chairman of Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority, D. Sreenivasulu, inaugurated the seminar.

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