The EU is a crucial market for Antigua and Barbuda’s lobster exports, with ongoing audits of the country’s fishing sector since November 2023.
Ian Horsford, Chief Fisheries Officer, highlighted the importance of meeting EU regulations on food safety to maintain exports.
Failure in this audit could lead to a ban on fish product exports to the EU, which remains a significant market despite a decline in export value from $10 million to around EC$3 million.
Challenges include ensuring staff competency, safe food processes, and legal products for EU entry.
Access to the EU market also opens doors to other countries, as seen with China. Currently, only Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada have this access among OECS countries.
Additionally, meeting EU and US standards, such as running water facilities, is crucial for export success.
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The fishing export market (especially our delicious lobsters) is another viable revenue stream for the country.
The European Union has asked the ABLP time and time again for transparency, audits and compliance so that we can benefit in some way of the lucrative European Market.
I’m staggered at our Prime Minister’s stubbornness and belligerence to comply with them.
You only have to look across the waters at the UK (who shot themselves in the foot) who have lost Billions by leaving the EU.
Please comply PM, Antigua & Barbuda are already suffering under your wayward policies and tutelage.
Brix you are so full of it that you don’t see the article makes no sense. Headline does not match the article. Here are some exceros from point fm “The European Union, one of the main export markets for Antigua and Barbuda
lobsters, is currently conducting an audit of the fishing sector of the country.
According to Chief Fisheries Officer, Ian Horsford, the audit started in November
2023 and it is still ongoing. Antigua and Barbuda successfully completed six such
audits in the past.
Horsford sits in the National Trade Council and this week he told the council of the
challenges his department faces in exporting fish and fish projects to markets such
as the EU and the United States.
“Under EU regulations, in terms of food safety, they are looking at whether or not
Antigua and Barbuda continues to meet the requirements for exporting fisheries
products to the EU. They are therefore looking at the competency of our staff, the
processes we use to ensure that the food is safe to enter their markets as well as to
ensure that the products that reach the EU are legal,” he explained.
According to Horsford it is critical that Antigua and Barbuda ‘passes’ this latest
audit as a ‘failure’ would mean a total ban on exports of fish products to the EU…”
@tenman,well said!!!!.
Sometimes @brixtonian jumping too early for made statements,what’s is true need to be at it’s. Many folks pushing their political favorite agenda.
@ Inquire, you are entitled to your opinion, even though I couldn’t make head nor tail of what you were trying to write.
Is this a common trait for ABLP supporters?
MUST BE …
“…what’s is true need to be at it’s …”
HUH?! 🤪
Antigua and Barbuda need to ignore these old western colonial sanction happy Governments, look more to the eastern and Asian Countries to do business with.
The West superpower status are causing their own demise, they misuse the power of the dollar by weaponizing it, and placing sanctions on us, and most Nations are now trading amongst each other using their own currency, and the green back less.
BRICS and the Asian Nations are on the rise, while the west give us sanctions and lectures, the BRICS Nations brings us development and want to see us develop, thrive and be equal partner, and not coming with cap in hand begging.
I think u missed the point…..EU simply has strict regulations when it comes to food (unlike the USA), so it is not about sanctions, it is about mantaining certain standards or they will just not purchase, simple
Well said @ Simple, my sentiments exactly, and I didn’t really expect Tenman to understand how the European Union are in regulations and strict hygiene standards/requirements.
No surprise at all …
EU is asserting it’s colonial hegemony over the Caribbean. by infantilism of our small corporation entrepreneurship, can you imagine we have the handle of the blade where we providing organic wild fish product from our unpolluted water and the EU saying they want an audit, why don’t they do that on their end since there is custom entry documentations? Just come right out and say you want get the fisherman them product for cents.
And who may I ask is sanctioning the auditors. They export to us contaminated food and medicine and all we hear is class action suit which only benifit consumers in US and EU. We remain silent an just dance to their music
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