FAO FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE PROCEEDINGS
13

International seafood trade:
challenges and opportunities

FAO/University of Akureyri Symposium
1–2 February 2007
Akureyri, Iceland

Edited by

Hjörleifur Einarsson
Professor, University of Akureyri
Akureyri, Iceland

and

William Emerson
Senior Fishery Industry Officer
Fish Utilization and Marketing Service
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
Rome, Italy

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Einarsson, H.; Emerson, W. (eds).
International seafood trade: challenges and opportunities. FAO/University of Akureyri Symposium.
1–2 February 2007, Akureyri, Iceland.
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Proceedings. No. 13. Rome, FAO. 2009. 121p.

ABSTRACT

These proceedings contain the manuscripts from the symposium on International Seafood Trade: Challenges and Opportunities, held in Akureyri, Iceland from 1-2 February 2007.

The University of Akureyri, Faculty of Business and Science organized the meeting in collaboration with the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department.

The meeting included a range of views regarding the risks and challenges inherent to the recent developments in international seafood trade. These included views from government officials, business representatives and academia.

The symposium reviewed developments related to:

• recent trends in the seafood sector;
• seafood safety and quality market access requirements;
• WTO dispute settlement process;
• developing countries perspectives;
• investment opportunities;
• ecolabelling;
• consumer trends; and
• education and training in the seafood sector.

The symposium highlighted that the seafood sector is extremely dynamic and is increasingly becoming a global sector. Risks include the pressure of global demand on capture fisheries that are often over-exploited, meeting the higher sanitary and phytosanitary requirements being set by the markets, and the development of voluntary eco-labels. Opportunities include the further development of the aquaculture sector, the advancement of technology to meet sanitary and phytosanitary requirements, and the further development of the value-added sector in developing countries.