Cofisa invests 1.2 million in the production of sausage tuna – Reuters

product hit the market a little over a month after undergoing a process “slow and difficult” to gain the desired consistency without compromising the taste of tuna, said the president of Cofisa, José Freitas, told Lusa .

The project cost, only equipment and installation around one million euros, which further compounded further 200 thousand euros in the development phase and product tests conducted in a pilot plant over two years.

In 2013, exports of canned fish reached about 50 thousand tons (16.3% getting above the amount sold in the previous year) and increased 15.7% in value, totaling 206 million euros, “one of the highest growth rates of recent years,” explained Castro e Melo, the National Association of Manufacturers of Canned Fish (ANICP).

Canned sardines represent about a third of this volume, having been exported about 18 tons in 2013 (9.8% more than the previous) with the value increasing to 84 million euros (18.3% more than in 2012), according to official statistics Datapesca.

Here are the tuna, with 10 thousand tons in 2013, valued at 56 million euros, and then canned mackerel and mackerel, which were exported just over 8000 tonnes (EUR 37 million). />

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