Manta hosts, in person, the South Pacific Expopesca

The event will be open until Friday, June 4 at the Manta Cruise Terminal properties.

The ninth editionSouth Pacific ExpopescaIt is developed in person with the assistance of delegates of companies associated with the activity of the fishing, having Manta, the considered capital of Ecuador, as the headquarters of an event that is the first one that is carried out in person after the start of the pandemic and with the required biosecurity measures.

The complexity of developing an event of this magnitude with security measures meant an effort beyond the eight editions (which are carried out in a biannual way), said JuanCarlos Mendizábal,General Director of the event.

"This event is focused on the economic reactivation of commercial sectors of the city and the province, as well as the tourist issue, today is the first country to have a face -to -face event of this type," said Mendizábal.

Promoting business, which foreign companies promote technologies applied in fishing systems, are part of the intentions of this fair.

Mendizábal recalled that in 2007, after this fair, direct negotiations were held to open markets in Russia and the technification offered by nations such as Germany, Spain and Italy, which promoted modernization in some fishing processing plants and derived in blankets, mainly.

Hernán Salcedo, councilor of Manta, He argued that everything related to fishing activity generates huge resources to the city and the country; As more than 10,000 jobs in an industry that never stopped, despite the pandemic.

According to theNational Fishery Chamber,Ecuador exported in 2020 more than1,582 million dollarsBy concept of sale abroad of back and canned tuna, fresh fish, frozen fish and other sea products, a figure that decreased in a2%In relation to what was exported in 2019, when it reached a little more than1,612 million dollars.

Between January and May of this year, according to theEcuadorian Export Federation (Fedexpor), Ecuador had already exported92 million dollarsin tuna and fish, four million dollars less than in the same period of 2020.

Erwin Castro, Undersecretary of Fisheries ResourcesHe indicated that the fishing sector energizes the country's economy, even more in difficult times such as those lived today.

The fair will remain until Friday on the grounds of the Manta Cruise Terminal, a space located on Malecón de Manta Avenue, next to El Murciélago beach.