Sardar Hanif Khan

Sardar Hanif Khan, chairman of the Seafood Industries Association (PSIA), when contacted, said the EC mission's visit and developments that followed are not as serious as the government has taken it because if one goes through the EC report, there is no mention of delisting of processing plants in it.

In fact, the EC did not want to delist the processing plants, but it is our government that had asked the EC to take this step because if the government had taken it itself, the whole of the industry would have been at odds with it," he opined.

"The EU is the largest single market of the Pakistani," said Sardar Hanif Khan, Chairman of Pakistan Seafood Industry Association (PSIA).

"Currently we have received fresh crop only from Sindh, as harvesting in Punjab starts a little later," said Sardar Ahsan Khan, another wholesale trader.

Sardar Hanif Khan, Chairman Pakistan Seafood Industry Association says the ban would adversely affect Pakistan's fisheries exports and send a negative image among other international buyers of our products.He said the fisheries' exporters hold the federal government for neither being able to lobby with the EU authorities nor ensure the quality standards set by the EU.

Sardar Hanif Khan, chairman the Pakistan Seafood Industries Association, said that shrimp farming was "...the only way to boost seafood exports, as the fast depleting fisheries stocks are unable to sustain this growth on a long-term basis.