2010,s Positive End Sets Stage For More Global Seafood Advances

摘要

Seafood production and trade improved in 2010. Groundfish supplies are growing. Farmed salmon companies reported near-record production and profits, and wild salmon returns have been spectacular. Shrimp sales remained strong, and aquaculture production of Pangasius and tilapia ramped up. Perhaps the most important change was the growing public recognition that fisheries and aquaculture are sustainable. False data about methyl mercury are also being countered. Rising wholesale prices will be a factorin 2011. The year 2010 went out on a high note, and in many parts of the seafood business, the year was one to celebrate. Despite the poor economic recovery and the stress of weak foodservice sales, seafood production and trade improved in many ways in 2010.