Trade insights: China’s Spring Festival shrimp imports sluggish
China's shrimp imports rose at the start of 2021 as importers stocked up for Chinese New Year, but were still significantly short of the highs of last year
Trade insights: Ecuador’s February shrimp sales rebound but export prices lower
Ecuador's monthly shrimp exports rebounded to over 57,000 metric tons in February, but average export prices slipped back to just over $5.00/kg
Trade insights: US falls out of top 10 seafood exporting countries
The US fell out of the world’s top 10 seafood exporting countries after a 16% drop in exports in 2020; nearly all other big exporters also registered a decline
Trade insights: China pollock imports, exports hit rocks
In the fourth quarter of 2020, exports to China’s largest market, Germany, fell to 20,700t, down 42% compared with Q4 of 2019
Trade insights: No new year bounce for Ecuador in Chinese shrimp market
Latest monthly export data shows Ecuador exported almost two-thirds less shrimp to China compared in January compared with the same month last year
Trade insights: India’s shrimp exports on track for double-digit fall in 2020
The fall in exports follows a difficult year for Indian producers who have been hamstrung by lockdown measures and weak demand
Trade insights: EU frozen shrimp imports contract in Jan-Oct period
EU countries (including the UK) imported 629,000t of frozen shrimp in the first 10 months of 2020, down 2% compared with the same period in 2019
Trade insights: US recovers share of Chinese live lobster market after tariff exemption
China's imports of live Homarus lobsters from the US and Canada have remained robust despite the pandemic
Trade insights: Double-digit growth in Chinese tuna exports on strong sales to Spain
China continued to grow its exports of canned tuna and cooked tuna loins in 2020, to the potential concern of European tuna fishing companies
Trade insights: $1.3bn black hole in shrimp sales to China after COVID scares
Slump in shrimp consumed in China slashed 54% off value of imports over second-half of 2020, with total down to $1.12bn in the period