Once hopeful about President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration and the promise of long-awaited changes in the aquaculture Legislation, Brazilian producers are now increasingly impatient with the government's faiLure to push for a reopening of the European market for Brazil’s farmed fish, after three years of a ban. Since 2018, when the EU closed the bloc to Brazilian fish after identifying problems in the industry, tilapia and shrimp producers have been penalised for something they didn't do, said Francisco Medeiros, President of the Brazilian Pisciculture Association (Peixe BR). “Our segment has been growing every year, but we couLd have been growing much more if we were able to export to the European Union,” he said, adding that many other countries, including major tilapia consumers like Israel, follow the EU protocols and are equally inaccessible to Brazilian fish farmers' production.
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