New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- India's seafood industry won a significant boost on Tuesday after the European Union cleared 102 new Indian fishery establishments for exports to its member countries, marking one of the largest single expansions of market access in recent years.

The approvals, which cover aquaculture shrimps and cephalopods such as squid, cuttlefish, and octopus, underscore growing EU confidence in India's food safety and traceability standards, the commerce ministry said in a statement.

Commerce minister Piyush Goyal held a series of meetings with European counterparts, during which they credited the Export Inspection Council's (EIC's) oversight for ensuring compliance with the bloc's stringent requirements, leading to the decisi...