The Department of Fisheries and the Myanmar Fisheries Federation (MFF) plan to export Myanmar’s freshwater fish to Saudi Arabia, said U Nyunt Win, director of the Department of Fisheries.
“The department and the federation have been working together to ship freshwater fish like rohu, Catla (carp) produced from fish farms to the markets of Saudi Arabia through legitimate trade,” he elaborated.
The department has been striving for sustainable fishery export and meeting the demand and requirements of the purchasing countries depending on the condition of the fishery market, along with the exporters in the supply chain. Myanmar makes efforts to meet import criteria of the strict customs rules of foreign customers like China.
Myanmar exports seafood to Japan, Middle East countries, European Union members, Malaysia, Chinese Taipei and Australia. The department has been joining hands with MFF to bolster fishery exports.