Seychelles — Fish and Fish Products
Seychelles received 6 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fish and Fish Products between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume is rising sharply year-on-year. The list below gives each of these 13 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it; 1 says what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import fish and fish products from Seychelles
- Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border
- Not on the EU's increased-checks list, so only member states' routine, risk-based checks apply (rates not published).
- If it is rejected
- Held, final fate not recorded 100% (202 tonnes in all). A re-dispatched lot can be sold elsewhere, a treated or sorted one can be released once it complies, and a destroyed one is lost.
- Where rejections happen
- Spain (6), of 6 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- June, September, January, by rejections since 2020.
The EU does not publish how many consignments are shipped, so no page can state a true probability of rejection; these are the figures that are published.
Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2023-Q3 | 0 |
| 2023-Q4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuna | 6 | — | — | — |
| Other | 0 | — | — | — |
"1 rejection per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
Recent rejections
- 2026.4980 Rotura de cadena de frío en atún a granel procedente de Seychelles //Poor temperature control in bulk tuna from Seychelles. Notified by Spain.
- 2026.4969 Rotura de cadena de frío en atún a granel procedente de Seychelles // Poor temperature control in bulk tuna from Seychelles Notified by Spain.
- 2025.8338 Rotura de cadena de frío en atún. País de Origen Seychelles // Cold chain breakage in tuna. Country of Origin: Seychelles Notified by Spain.
- 2024.6733 Ruptura de la cadena de frío en atún de Seychelles. Cold chain break in tuna from Seychelles. Notified by Spain.
- 2024.4811 Ruptura de la cadena de frío en atún de Seychelles. Breaking the cold chain in tuna from Seychelles. Notified by Spain.
- 2024.4348 Ruptura de la cadena de frío en atún de Seychelles. Breakage of the cold chain in tuna from Seychelles. Notified by Spain.
- 2022.3574 Ruptura de la cadena de frío en atún congelado de Seychelles - Poor temperature control in frozen tuna from Seychelles Notified by Spain.
- 2021.3071 Not valid sanitary certificate for Thunnus albacares from Seychelles Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
- 2021.3070 NO APORTACIÓN CERTIFICADO SANITARIO OFICIAL- Makaira indica; Katsuwonus pelamis-Seychelles Notified by Spain.
- 2020.3921 Rechazo por problemas de frío causados por deterioro del contenedor Notified by Spain.
- 2020.2325 rechazo por temperaturas incorrectas en atunes congelados en salmuera Notified by Spain.
- 2020.2275 Poor temperature control of swordfish and tuna loins from Seychelles Notified by United Kingdom.
- 2020.0273 Poor temperarure control in frozen stripe-bellied bonito (Katsuwonus pelamis) from Seychelles Notified by Spain.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 2 notifications since 2020 concerned fish and fish products from Seychelles found after entering the EU — 2 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.
How they were found: consumer complaint or illness 50%, at the EU border 50%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 |
- 2024.0418 info: attentionElevato tenore di istamina in conserva di tonno al naturale/High histamine content in natural canned tuna Notified by Italy. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market. Result 1520. histamine
- 2020.4688 info: attentionMercury in chilled fillets of swordfish from Seychelles Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 1.6 mg/kg. mercury
Data and downloads
Download all 15 entries (CSV) — every notification behind this page, border rejections and those found on the market, with how each was found and what was done.
The file holds entries up to 2026-06-05. To get new ones for Seychelles by email, watch Seychelles.