An Overview of the Seafood Processing Sector in Some Mediterranean Countries

Year 2018, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 23 - 30, 23.01.2018

Mehmet Tolga Dinçer

Abstract

In
this review current situation and the development of the seafood processing
sector in some selected Mediterranean countries will be given.  To give an
idea of the scale of the trade, better to mention the amount of fish
consumption rates of the countries. European Mediterranean countries consume
almost 7.5 million tonnes of seafood each year, these countries just produce
2.75 million tonnes of domestic fish and seafood products annually and import
1.8 million tonnes of fish and seafood products from the other Mediterranean
countries just in the region every year. There is a serious difference
between in seafood consumption between EU member countries and African
countries which are locating in Mediterranean. The reasons behind these
differences in consumption are diverse, and are related not only to cultural
and gastronomic habits, demography and standards of living, but also to general
logistics issues, such as deficiencies in road communications and lack of
wholesale food markets and processing plants. A balance of this trade
should be stabilized and the solution can be transferring the processing
technologies by using the EU founds and supports for these non-member
Mediterranean countries.

Keywords

seafood, consumption, trade, exports, canned fish

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