Megapesca is
a fisheries development consultancy located in Portugal. The company was
founded in 1993 and comprises a group of experienced consultants specialising
in:
 The management
of fisheries development projects throughout the world
The provision of technical assistance to the private sector, governments
and donor agencies
Training in fisheries and related disciplines
The company
works in Portuguese and English. Spanish is also spoken fluently.
About Megapesca
Directors and associate consultants of Megapesca hold professional
qualifications in the field of fisheries and food technology. We also hold
membership of the following professional organisations:
Institute of Food Science and Technology
European Federation of Food Science and Technology
International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade
Megapesca directors, full-time staff and associate consultants
provide a leading-edge technical resource in a wide range of specialist
disciplines associated with the economic exploitation of living aquatic
resources. In particular we specialise in:
| fish processing
and preservation |
design of
ports and markets |
| quality assurance |
design of
processing factories |
| fish marketing
and market studies |
international
trade in fishery |
| assessment
of fish quality |
insurance
claims for fish products |
Megapesca's full-time staff and consultants have an extensive
experience of these disciplines in the development context, having
applied their knowledge in many countries in both long- and short-term
positions.
We at Megapesca wish to make this website more than just
an advertisement for our services. It is our policy to disseminate as much
information as we can about our work experience in the fisheries area,
in the hope of assisting the development process. To this end we are placing
the following documents for general interest.
There is a review of some current issues in
fisheries development. This includes resource
management, post-harvest losses,
utilisation of small pelagic fish, and
fish trade development and product quality.
We have recently completed a project dealing with fisheries
development opportunities in Latvia. This link provides a profile of
the Latvian fishery sector and the export potential.
We have also just completed a study of the problems facing
the nile perch industry on Lake Victoria,
and the challenges facing producers in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. This
page provides lots of previously unpublished data on export trends from
the region.
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