President Alan Garcia announced on Monday that Peru’s fishing industry will receive a promotional boost, including the passing of preferential bills, for increasing exports of tuna, mackerel, anchovies, and scad (in Spanish: jurel).

Garcia welcomed the investment made by the Brescia Group for the construction of a deep freeze storage plant for exotic fish species in Callao by the company Técnológica de Alimentos (TASA) with a storage capacity of 14.000 metric tons.

Garcia emphasized that Peru promotes foreign and national investments in primary productive sectors by installing preferential laws and providing legal stability.

Nevertheless, he considered that now is the time to do what it takes to impel Peru’s fishing industry. “When we have access to the necessary metallurgic and petrochemical technology, for example to produce digestible amino acids, then we will make a qualitative leap. Otherwise, it will mostly become a leap in quantity”, he said.

Garcia stressed that it takes innovate and dynamic imagination of enterprises and entrepreneurs to generate revenue and jobs and improving the quality of products and merchandise.