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Global fish economy: Production and trade to grow in 2022, prices remain strong overall
17/03/2023
Production and trade grew slightly, with fish consumption recovering to 2018 levels due to strengthening demand. Global fish production increased by...
Chinese sturgeon and caviar industry
30/09/2019
Sturgeons in China and their conservation Historically, sturgeons had an important role in people’s ordinary lives in China. The earliest established...
WTO Environmental Database: A tool to track sustainability measures affecting fish trade
25/06/2019
A new online database (https://edb.wto.org/) is available to track trade and environmental measures and policies of over 160 World Trade Organization...
Chinese production and export of large yellow croaker
10/04/2019
Large yellow croaker (Larimichthys croceus)1 is a species of marine fish in the croaker family (Sciaenidae) native to the northwestern Pacific, generally...
Chinese sea cucumber farming ready to bounce back
03/04/2018
Sea cucumber is a premium product with large popularity in China, the largest producer of this seafood and its related products. The Chinese sea cucumber...
Key Documents
GLOBEFISH | Special features - WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations
16/07/2024
The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), held in Geneva from 12 to 17 June 2022, had led to the adoption of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies that prohibits subsidies supporting illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing; bans support for fishing overfished stocks; and eliminates subsidies for fishing on the unregulated high seas.
GLOBEFISH | Special features - The red sea crisis: shipping costs soar
15/07/2024
Just as we thought the worst is over in this post-COVID-19 era, shipping costs are escalating once again, but under different circumstances. The crisis in the Near East which surfaced in late 2023 is bringing about new challenges for industries shipping goods across the globe.
GLOBEFISH | Special features - The changes in aquafeed usage in China
12/07/2024
China’s average annual growth in aquaculture production is 3.46 % between 2015 and 2021. Of all the protein sources, fishmeal is reckoned to be the preferred protein source for feeds of aquatic and land animals because of the balanced amino acid profile, phospholipids and favorable fatty acids composition, good feed palatability and easy digestibility and absorption. Fish oil in feed is primarily responsible for providing fat to fish.