The privately owned, nonprofit Hellenic Aquaculture Producers Organization was established in 2016 with the primary aim of fostering the growth and development of its members. Representing 90% of the Greek aquaculture industry, HAPO is self-financed through the contributions and donations of its members, to whom it provides a wide range of active support in terms of collaboration, development, advice, problem-solving, networking, training, liaison with authorities and more.
The organization’s mission is to firmly establish the Greek identity and highlight the exceptional characteristics and competitive advantage of the fresh Greek fish branded “Fish from Greece”, raised with the utmost care by its Members in the most ideal locations of the country’s unspoiled seas.
David versus Goliath in fishing Peru
A little more than three years ago, the government of the People's Republic of China surprised the world by reporting that its distant water industrial vessels, which fish for squid at the edge of the...