Imports, prices and piracy in Spain: the challenges of tuna vessels in the Efeagro podcast

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Published Mar 24, 2024

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Spanish tuna industry is grappling with issues such as unfair global competition, stagnant prices, and piracy threats, says Julio Morón, head of the Organization of Associated Producers of Large Freezer Tuna Vessels (Opagac). The industry faces unfair competition from imports, especially from Asia, due to differences in work and environmental standards. The price of frozen tuna has not changed in two decades, despite rising operational costs. Morón calls for more transparent origin labeling in the EU and identifies the potential EU-Thailand free trade agreement, with Thailand being the global leader in canned tuna, as a potential risk.

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Unfair competition globally and in the European Union, price stagnation and the threat of piracy have stood out among the challenges for Spanish tuna vessels, which are addressed in a series of episodes of the Efeagro podcast "Punto de Encuentro", dedicated to this fleet. In the first of them, the general director of the Organization of Associated Producers of Large Freezer Tuna Vessels (Opagac), Julio Morón, also president of the shipowners' association Cepesca, has analyzed the main challenges of the tuna fleet that extracts the tropical species used in preserves. The podcast can be heard on Spotify, Spreaker, Ivoox and YouTube Unfair competition from imports, especially from Asian countries, due to inequality in working and environmental conditions, prices or generational change are key issues for Spain, the leading European producer of canned tuna and the second in the world, according to Morón. In the podcast, he explained that the situation of the tuna vessels is one more ...

Source: PEefeagro