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Three new countries, three different agendas

Igor Zolotnickij, sales manager and Olga Popova, COO for SFT Angola.

Pritipaul Singh Investment is looking to
find buyers for its Guyanese shrimp.
SFT Angola is looking to making its
clients more comfortable. And Saudi
Arabia's Ministry of Environment, Water
and Agriculture is seeking to attract
aquaculture investors. Their motivations
may have been different, but their
destination was the same: the Seafood
Expo Global.
For Pritipaul Singh Jr., the managing
director of the company his father
founded in Georgetown, Guyana
in 1999, exhibiting at Seafood Expo
Global is an opportunity to showcase
his country's unique seabob shrimp. "If
you're a seafood person, the taste they
give out is to die for," he said.
Pritipaul Singh Investment is a USD 50
million (EUR 44.6 million) company

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that exports 11 to 12 million pounds of
shrimp annually, mostly to the United
States. It also sells an assortment of
fish including pelagics such as mahi,
swordfish, and marlin, as well as
bangamary, butterfish, croaker, and
corvina sold mostly in the Caribbean
market. "We decided to exhibit because
we are targeting the European market
with our seabob," Singh Jr. said. "A
better spread of markets will help us in
the long run."
Igor Zolotnickij is the sales manager
for SFT Angola, a company based in
Luanda, Angola that annually delivers
more than 250,000 metric tons of
frozen fish to markets in West Africa,
ranging from Liberia down the coast
to Angola. SFT Angola is affiliated
with SeafishTrade, a Lithuanian trading

firm whose owners have 25 years of
experience in the seafood industry and
have been attending the expo for more
than a decade, but always as visitors.
"SeafishTrade has grown very fast since
we started [up] in 2010, and SFT Angola
has also grown very fast," Zolotnickij
said. "Every year, we were having more
and more meetings, and it just became
too complicated without a dedicated
meeting space. This year, we have a nice
place where we can conveniently meet
our clients. Besides meeting with existing
customers, Zolotnickij said a secondary
goal of the company's first year as
an exhibitor was showing potential
customers "the possibilities of Africa.
The company has made the decision
to concentrate on the African market
because it's a big market already and it
has great potential," he said.
For Abdullah Mesaed Abalkhail, the
communications director for the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of
Environment, Water and Agriculture, the
first year of exhibiting at Seafood Expo
Global is all about promoting his country
as a great place to start an aquaculture
operation.
A central goal of the country's National
Fisheries Development Program, part
of its Vision 2030 plan for sustainable
development, Saudi Arabia is looking
to establish strategic food reserves,
with aquaculture serving as a central
pillar of that plan. The program calls for
expanding Saudi Arabia's aquaculture
sector to 600,000 metric tons of
production by 2030, up from 77,000
metric tons in 2018. To do so, the
government has initiated an investment
program, along with streamlined rules
on environmental monitoring, to
encourage growth.
"We have a long coastline, pristine
water, suitable cage depth and low
wave heights," Abalkhail said. "When
it comes to aquaculture, we believe we
are one of best countries in world for
investing."
Specifically, the ministry is seeking out
aquaculture projects focusing on sea
bream, sea bass, tilapia, white shrimp,
and meagre.
"We are inviting and welcoming foreign
investments in Saudi Arabia," Abalkhail
said. "To us aquaculture is a promising
initiative and one that we would like to
encourage."
Cliff WHITE

COUP DE CŒUR
❙ Poulpe fiction à la sauce galicienne
La Galice, avec une grande tradition de consommation du poulpe,
est un carrefour dans son négoce
international. Environ 2 000 tonnes
d'octopus vulgaris sont pêchées
par les Galiciens au crochet ou au
pot. Rosa de Los Vientos valorise
cette pêche certifiée Pesca de Ria.
Chez Fesba, la Galice ne pèse que
5  % des achats. Le reste  : Portugal, Maroc, Mauritanie... «  C'est
la même qualité  », assure Marcos
Arevalillo Romero, son responsable
export, qui approvisionne 30  pays
en poulpe congelé. Sous la marque
A Pulpeira, Frigorificos Arcos cuit
en Galice du poulpe de Mauritanie et du Maroc. Cuit sous vide
et à la vapeur, « il garde au mieux
la saveur et la couleur  », souligne

Carlos Arcos (photo), qui vend sur
tous les continents. Ce n'est pas un
hasard si l'Eumofa a choisi la Galice
pour présenter le poulpe dans l'UE,
ce mercredi à 11 heures.
Solène LEROUX

Stand 7-1517/1617

❙ Le thon par Ensis - Stand 11-2150

Jayalath Chammika, Hussain Afeef, Wanna Kuwatta de Ensis.

En cheville avec une flottille de canneurs, Ensis est le principal exportateur de thon albacore des Maldives. L'usine basée à proximité de
l'aéroport international d'Hulhule
exporte environ 1 200 t par an pour
moitié en longe conditionnée sous
vide, l'autre moitié étêté ou entier.
Le transformateur qui dispose également d'une conserverie, fournit des
découpes plus élaborées type steak,
saku, ventrèche et chunk. L'unité de
découpe répond à tous les standards de sécurité (BRC, ISO 14001,
SGS). Le mode de pêche à la canne

par des navires artisans évite toutes
prises accessoires et la pêche à la
senne est interdite dans l'archipel.
Ensis transforme aussi du listao certifié MSC. « L'agrément européen et
notre système d'assurance qualité
nous permettent de répondre à la
demande croissante du marché avec
du thon garanti non traité. L'export
en congelé à -20 C° se développe et
nous disposons d'une filiale en Allemagne  », précise Jayalath Chammika, directeur de production et
des ventes.
Bruno VAUDOUR

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