HARMONIZED EAC GUIDELII\TES FOR TRADERS IN FISH, FISHERY AND AQUACULTURE PRODUCTS AND INPUTS IN REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE

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Publication
East African Community/documents

Fish, fishery and aquaculture products and inputs are traded among the East African Community (EAC) countries but some are exported while some are imported. Fish and fishery products from EAC are exported to more than 50 Countries with about 70% exported to the European Union (EU). The fish and fishery products exported include; whole fish, skinless and skin-on fillets, headless and gutted, steaks, portions, loins, cubblings, trimmings which are either chilled, frozen, canned, salted, sundried, deep fried, smoked or powdered. Others include fish sausages, cowries shells, fish oil, fish meal. Exported byproducts include; skins and scales (Germany), fish frames and heads (Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Thailand and Vietnam), offals (China, DRC). The imported fish and fishery products into the EAC region include: frozen whole gutted and ungutted tilapia, mackerel, rabbit fish, reef cod; canned (tunas, sardines, mackerel, anchovy); frozen (prawns, crams, crabs, lobsters, oysters, squids, mussels, smoked salmon, Pangasius fillets and steak) among others and these are imported from China, India, Vietnam, Yemen, Japan, Mauritius, Norway, Israel, Namibia, Taiwan, South Korea, Spain, Oman among others.

 

Publication date (of file/URL)
3 January 2019
Aichi targets
4. Sustainable production and consumption
4.1. Governments, business and stakeholders at all levels have taken steps to achieve, or have implemented, plans for sustainable production and consumption
6.3. Fisheries have no significant adverse impacts on threatened species and vulnerable ecosystems
6.4. The impacts of fisheries on stocks, species and ecosystems are within safe ecological limits, i.e. overfishing avoided
20. Financial resources from all sources increased
20.1. Mobilization of financial resources implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity from all sources have increased substantially from 2010 levels
Countries
Burundi
Kenya
Rwanda
Tanzania
Uganda