THE Norwegian Fishery Council, NFC, and the Nigeria Customs are currently in talks with a view to creating a platform for the exchange of information on pricing of fish and other perishable cargoes. fresh fish in basket Speaking at a meeting in Lagos last week the West and Central Africa Director of the NFC, Mr Trond Kostveit, said that the Council has been inundated with complaints by Nigerian fish importers of the delays in getting their perishable cargoes out of the ports.
Kostveit also said that the longer these perishables stay in unregulated conditions the more they lose their quality. He disclosed that the Council, in recent past, organized a meeting between the Norwegian and Nigeria Customs Services with a view to creating a common platform to verifying prices from Nigerian importers.