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Interview: Peru seeks to triple fishery exports

Xinhua, September 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Peru is scheduled to triple its fisheries exports under President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's administration, confirmed the president of the National Society of Industries' (SNI) Fisheries Committee, Alfonso Miranda, on Friday.

According to Miranda, the aim for this sector is to reach an average of 3 billion U.S. dollars in exports, only in fisheries products for direct consumption in the coming years.

"These figures will significantly outweigh the exports reached during last year (2015) which totalled almost 900 million U.S. dollars," Miranda said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua during the 2nd International Symposium on Fisheries and Aquaculture for Human Consumption, taking place in Lima.

Miranda, who was deputy minister for fisheries, said the aim for the fisheries sector in Peru is extremely well-focused and is heading towards reaching its goals for 2021.

"These goals should be reached as part of the objectives for the bicentenary," said Miranda, alluding to Peru's upcoming 200th anniversary of independence.

According to the SNI leader, the goals established by the fisheries industry for the coming five years are quite feasible.

"It is worth saying (that we will manage) to triple our human consumption exports because we have seen that it is possible; Chile and Ecuador, our neighbours, have surpassed these figures," said Miranda.

Miranda also spoke about the contribution that the fisheries sector makes to Peru.

"We hope to give direct employment to around 500,000 people by 2021, the year of the bicentenary, and most importantly stamp out anemia and malnutrition through fish-based foods," Miranda added.

Regarding the Symposium, Miranda said this gathering of officials and experts is contributing to a healthy exchange of experiences. "(It has served) as a means to get to know about the latest technological trends and the practices that have been implemented in other countries in order to achieve efficiency, experience that will be very useful for us in Peru," said Miranda.

Miranda admitted that the sector dreams of recovering the territory lost during the past years, since the golden age of fishing in Peru in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was considered as a continental leader in the sector.

Miranda urged the unionized companies in the sector to continue carrying out sustainable work, taking into account the environment and protecting the Pacific Ocean which is the source of the fishing resources.

The leader emphasized the need to establish clear regulations surrounding the oil industry activities that are carried out off Peru's northern coast, with the aim of protecting the environment.

According to Miranda's assessment, the average of Peru's fisheries exports in the past years was around 1 billion U.S. dollars annually. Enditem