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SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [Asia Pulse Pte Ltd ]- April 25, 2003
- BEIJING, April 25 Asia Pulse
Aquatic products
accounted for one quarter of China's farm produce
export last year, with two million tons sold on the
world market, said sources with the Ministry of
Agriculture.
More than 2.08 million tons of Chinese fish and
fishery products valuing at US$4.69 billion were
shipped to the world market last year, contributing
the most to China's agricultural exports which hit
US$18.14 billion, said Yang Jian, director of the
ministry's Fisheries Bureau, quoted by China Daily.
The country has good potential for increasing the
share of its aquaculture products on international
market with the help of the World Trade Organization (WTO),
said the latest report on the world's fishery industry
by the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations.
China is currently the world's largest producer of
farm-grown aquatic products.
It remained the world's largest eel exporter last
year, and exports of tilapia fish jumped from 473 tons
in 1998 to 32,000 tons in 2002, according to the
bureau sources. |
