Fisheries committee  I don't think I quite understood your question very well. We did notice that when we started to work, there were not easy-to-implement analytical tools. There was a lot of fraud in the retailers in the market. When we developed these DNA techniques in the decade of 2000 and so o

Fisheries committee  Okay. We received a lot of samples at the beginning and we were seeing numbers like 50% or 60% being mislabelling. It was really rampant fraud. Nowadays we are seeing numbers of 5% or 6%, depending on the type of seafood, really. This is a very huge market of very different thing

Fisheries committee  Muchas gracias, Mr. Hanley. My experience was that at the beginning, there was not too much co-operation. They were very afraid that these things were going to decrease their economic benefit. Over the years, they realized that traceability and good labelling were helping them,

Fisheries committee  Yes, of course. This is something that is more related to program funds for projects in the Atlantic region, which are more intensive in terms of fisheries. That is the reason that it was funded by them, but the regulation is the same for all the fisheries in Europe. Yes.

Fisheries committee  I think the gold standard here is still DNA sequencing, which is not the same as the PCR test you mentioned. There are many methods that have been developed to implement this type of methodology in the seafood sector. It's more complicated because, as you know, we have many diffe

Fisheries committee  My statement referred more to fighting fraud by fighting misrepresentation of seafood. In Europe, and even in countries like in Spain that are not very big, we have different administrations that do not necessarily talk to each other. Sometimes you find that there is co-operation

Fisheries committee  Is this question for me? I didn't understand.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Yes, the gold standard nowadays is Sanger DNA sequencing,. I think that was a breakthrough. When we started to implement that in the routine analysis of seafood, we found a big difference between the previous fraud and the fraud that we were then finding.

Fisheries committee  Yes. You're right. I think you mentioned the more extensive way of labelling seafood. We have different categories of seafood and different requirements. I think this is a little bit messy, because if you have to buy fresh seafood and it's packaged, you may require many of the it

Fisheries committee  I really don't know what answer to give. This is a difficult question, because the labelling regulations are not equally implemented by all the types of retailers. We conducted a study in our Seatraces project and saw that in local fishmonger markets, for instance, which are sma

Fisheries committee  Certainly, I don't know the system you have there. I believe food safety should be, as in other occidental countries, of a very high standard, but my expertise is more related to seafood labelling and not so much seafood safety. I'm sorry. I don't really know the regulations arou

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much. In fact, that ship was from very near to here. Thank you.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. First, I would like to thank the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans for inviting me to participate as a witness in this session. I'm here as a coordinator of two EU projects, Labelfish and Seatraces, which were funded by the EU Interreg Atlantic pro