Tuesday, February 1, 2011

China reports rise in aquatic production in 2010

CHINA - In 2009, China's output of aquatic products achieved 51.20 million tons, up 4.6 percent from a year earlier.

Alongside with the improving living standard of people, the consumption of high-protein aquatic products goes up year by year, and the robust demand drives the output of aquatic products to grow ever. As far as the product mix is considered, the output of seawater products has an annually bridging gap with that of freshwater products in percentage, with a share of 52.4 percent and 47.6 percent, respectively.

China increases its export volume of aquatic products with the soaring demand in overseas market. In the first three quarters of 2010, the export volume and value of aquatic products of China reached 2.302 million tons and US$9.52 billion respectively, an increase of 8.9 percent and 25.6 percent from the same period of last year.

Of all, prawn, shellfish, tilapia, eel and large yellow croaker are still major exporting varieties, with the total export value providing 50.2 percent of the total export value of aquatic products. As for the unit export price, eel and large yellow croaker gained the huge growth by 38.7 percent and 43.4 percent respectively. Coastal provinces like Shandong and Guangdong are the major exporters of aquatic products which are largely exported to the US, Japan and South Korea. Read more...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.

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