David Eugui - Using Technology to Address Supply Chain Chall

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE FISHERIES VALUE CHAIN

Landing & cleaning

• New COVID-19, viruses and bacteria testing for fish boxes (e.g. Korea) • Resilient fishing port infrastructure (Blue ports such as Vigo, Spain) • Water purifiers, cold rooms, liquid ice, slurry, stream ice or ultra cold dry ice (e.g. Europeche) • Low energy pre-cooking & sterilisation techniques (e.g. Spain and Italy) • Poaches packaging (e.g. CEIPA, Ecuador) • Zero-waste systems (e.g. smart discard & utilisation of low value parts for fish meal or fertilisers in Peru & Saint Lucia) • New innovating products (e.g. Seaweed bio pencils, Peru) • Trade facilitation processing (e.g. COMESA, simplified trade regime for fish) • High definition brands (QR and bar codes with detailed product information) (Rio Mare QR, Italy & Ecuador CEIPA) • E-marketing, e-auctions and e-payments (e.g. Spain & Mexico) Monthly fish trade data on real time (e.g. Vanuatu Office of Statistics) Source: UNCTAD compilation, 2021

Processing

Services & marketing