MEDRAP II RAB/89/005-RER/87/009 FIELD DOCUMENT WORKSHOP ON QUALITY CONTROL, PROCESSING AND MARKETING 92/13 Tunis, April 22–25 1992 United Nations Development Programme Food and Agricultura Organisation of the United Nations Edited by MEDRAP II Regional Center Tunis-Tunisia All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Applications for such permission, with a statement of the purpose and extent of the reproduction, should be addressed to the Director, Publications Division, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. Preparation of this Document This document is one of a series of documents prepared during the course of the Project identified in the title page. The conclusions and recommendations given were considered appropriate at the time it was prepared. They may be modified in the light of further knowledge gained at subsequent stages of the Project. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this document do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The opinions expressed by the Authors in this document are not necessarily those of FAO or the Governments of the participating contries. This document was edited by Hassen AKROUT and Mohieddine BELKHIR in collaboration with Othman BÉJI and KAFFEL, the revision was made by Michel LAMBŒUF. Abstract The workshop on Quality Control. Processing and Marketing of Aquaculture Products was held in Sfax-Tunisia on 22–25 April 1992. The workshop considered several aspects related to sanitary norms, quality control, valorisation of Aquaculture Products, processing technology, marketing, etc… On the way back to Tunis, a study tour permitted to visit several processing and aquaculture units (clam hatchery, processing units of blue fish and private fish farming). The participants recognised the necessity of improving handling and quality control of aquaculture products and should take early action to identify and standardise their code and norms, Quality identification labels should be enhanced to promote aquaculture products. In the framework of a common strategy at regional, sub-regional or even at national level, it was stressed the urgent need establish a data bank of codes and norms when existing. The traditional processing of aquaculture products was discussed and the need to promote and conceive an integrated aquaculture industry was reported. In view of approaching new markets, the processing technics should be developped according to the diversified products. Regarding the marketing of aquaculture products, the idea of establishing several grower associations or marketing board was strongly recognised to improve market conditions and also to insure stable prices and available products. As the Mediterranean market is becoming smaller to aquaculture products, it was mentionel that growers and farmers should diversify both the production by introduicing new species and new products ans also the markets. Regional, national and international institutions were strongly invited to help in the matter by matter by training specialised staff, developing new technics and encouraging research in specific themes related to quality control, processing and marketing investigations. It was then recommended to promote the collections, analysis and exchange of information, through networking, about markets of interest to MEDRAP membre countries. Lastly, it was recommended that training and research programmes should be initiated and planned to promote the aquaculture indsutry in MEDRAP Membre Countries. Acknowledgements The Editor would like to thank the Tunisian Authorities, namely the National Coordinator, Mr. Béchir Tritar, for the remarkable help and assistance in the organisation of the meeting. The Editor would aslo like to thank the participants and the invited experts for their positive contribution to the success of the metting. Note from the reviser The revision and publication of this document could only be done a long time after the closure of the project. This has led to some difficulties in finalising the documents and implementing corrections, because authors and contributors as well as some of the original material or files were no longer available. Therefore contributions from participants and session papers annexed to most of the documents were left in their original form. No language corrections were introduction, the content was not modified and left under their respective authors' responsibility. Considering the above, we hope that the reader will understand that a standard of publication could not e maintained on a level as high as we would have liked it to be. CONTENTS • Final Report 1 • Adopted agenda. 5 • List of participants 9 Member countries summary reports • Portugal Mrs. M.L. Nunes and Mr. M.A. Dias 13 • Morocco Mr. A. Bernoussi 17 • Algeria Mr. Z. Farsi 21 • Tunisia Mr. N. Drissi 23 • Egypt Mr. N. Boles Azer 29 • Cyprus Mr. G. Georgiou 33 • Lebanon Mr. M. Nuwayhid 37 • Croatia Mr. I. Ivos 39 Conferences and lectures 1- Les normes sanitaires, communautaires régissant la production et la mise 41 sur le marché des produits de l'aquaculture (Sanitary norms of aquaculture products and markets in the European Community). By Mrs. PENAS (CEE) 2- L'aquaculture en Europe By Mrs. PENAS (CEE) 69 3- Contrôle des produits conchylicoles: justification, objectifs, méthodologieet 77 moyens (Quality control of conchyliculture products: justification, objectives, methodology and Means). By Mr. PELLIER (France) 4- Valorisation de la production aquacole marine en France. By Mr. VALLET 93 (France) 5- Comparative efficiency of processing technology to ensure hygienic quality 99 of fishery products with particular reference to developping countries. By Mr. J. DEBEVERE (Belgium) presented by Mr. BELKHIR 6- Quality control, processing and related research works in aquaculture. 111 By Mr. ISTVAN CSENGERY (Hungary) 7- Marché des produits aquacoles et diversification (Market of aquaculture 127 products and diversification). By Mr. Ph. FERLIN (France) 8- Marché des poissons Méditerranéens d'aquaculture (Market of 137 Mediterranean aquaculture fishes). By Mr. JACQUINOT (France) 9- Marketing of aquaculture products (Special regards to the export); 147 By Mr. ISTVAN CSENGERY (Hungary) FINAL REPORT Introduction The Mediterranean Regional Aquaculture Project (MEDRAP) convened a workshop on Quality Control, Processing and Marketing of Aquaculture Products, in Sfax (Tunisia), from 22 to 25 April 1992. Representatives from both private and public sectors from nine MEDRAP countries (Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Cyprus, Croatia, Lebanon, Turkey) attended the workshop and acitively participated in all its sessions, animated by eight expert invited from associated and non associated countries (France, Scotland, Hungary, Belgium). On behalf of Mr. Hassan AKROUT, the MEDRAP Project Coordinator, unable to attend the workshop due to health reasons, Mr. BELKHIR Mohiedine, expert and the representative of MEDRAP welcomed all the participants and wished them good stay in Tunisia and full success of the workshop that was just opened before by Mr. Bechir TRITAR, the Tunisian National Coordinator. Private aquaculture operators being the main users of research results of this workshop, MEDRAP offered them for the first time a good opportunity to join the meeting and exchange information with researchers and enrich the discussion with their experiments in the field. The workshop agenda was briefly introduced to the participants. It is mainly constituted of three sessions dealing with Quality Control, Processing and Marketing of aquaculture products, and a round table on present status on Quality Control, Processing and Marketing of Aquacole Production within the MEDRAP member countries. The programme also included a study tour on the way back Sfax-Tunis, that permitted to visiting several processing and aquaculture units (clam hatchery, processing units of blue fish belonging to both private and public sectors, and private fish farming). The participants fully adopted the agenda and proceeded to the following Officials for the Worshop: Chairman : Mr. Bechir TRITAR (Tunisia) Vice Chairman : Mr. Nazih BOLES AZER (Egypt) Reporters : Mr. Mahmoud SAHIN (Turkey) Mr. Abderrahmen BERNOUSSI (Morocco) Mr. Tony KIMONIDES (Cyprus) Main report The importance of Quality Control, Processing and Marketing in increasing the aquaculture production and improving the development of the aquaculture sector was generally recognized at both, national and Mediterranean level. The economic viability of aquaculture is considered closely dependent to that subject and should lead to conceive a new regional aquaculture strategy considering that related codes and norms should be identified and standardized. Furthermore, several aspects related to the matter and linked to the technical and economic viability of aquaculture under local sub-regional and regional conditions were carefully discussed through the different and interesting lectures and conferences. Hereby we considered very useful to report the main remarks