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Ecuador’s tuna fishery in 2015 is staring at lower prices. Prices are suffering due to oversupply, reportedly driven by overfishing, at a time of weakening demand for tuna and tuna products...

FAS Quito estimates that Ecuador’s calendar year (CY) 2015 shrimp production to reach 350,000 metric tons (MT), up 10,000 MT or an increase of three percent compared to 2014.

The Portuguese biofuels sector faces new challenges since 2015 as biodiesel production quotas have been phased-out and sustainability requirements have been fully enforced.

Spain’s dried fodder production forecast for MY 2015/16 is expected to reach 1.5 million MT.

Ecuador maintains anti-biotechnology laws and regulations.

On May 13, 2015, Ecuador President Rafael Correa signed Executive Decree 675. The decree doubles to ten percent the ethanol blend rate in Ecuadorian regular grade (87-octane) gasoline.