<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">India International Seafood Show (IISS) concluded in Kolkata today, bolstering the government's aim to double seafood exports by 2025 amid warm responses from buyers and exporters at the three-day event. A  total of 370 business meets were held during the event to boost seafood export.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The buyers totalled 28, represented by 21 companies from 11 countries. As many as 82 Indian exporters benefited from the meets, according to the three-day event's organisers Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) and Seafood Exporters Association of India.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">"There was widespread appreciation over our efforts to revive the country's marine exports in the post-pandemic era," MPEDA Chairman, Mr D.V. Swamy, IAS,  said about the February 15-17 event which had 3,000 delegates including 100 Overseas delegates and more than 7500 business visitors from within the country and abroad.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">India's renewed seafood exports target will earn 14 billion US dollars by 2025 as against $7.76 billion in 2021-22, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Smt Anupriya Patel said at the inaugural session of IISS.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The concluding evening saw awards distributed to three categories of stalls. Vietnamese firm Anh Phat won the prize for the best overseas stall, while Spain's Palinox was declared the second-best in the category. Among the domestic, Wan Hai Lines won the best stall, followed by Grasim Industries. In the category of exporters, the top honour went to KNC Agro, while SA Exports came second.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The event showcased a wide range of products based on automated and IT-aided technology and energy-efficient systems for value addition.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The 23rd IISS lent further momentum to the government's attempt to regain buoyancy in seafood exports in the post-pandemic era, with the MPEDA set to hold a conference on the harmonisation of regulations for seafood among G-20 countries. This will be in Delhi in the second half of this year. Further, the national capital will host a 'Fish Food Festival', inviting ambassadors from the top 20 markets (including G20 countries) of marine products. </span></p>