2022 Alaska seafood sales to China up 9 percent through June

Shipments of seafood from Alaska to China rose by 9 percent in the first half of 2022, due in part to an increase in yellowfin sole harvests and exports.

Exporters in Alaska shipped 29,654 metric tons (MT) of frozen flatfish sole to China in the first six months of 2022, up 49 percent year-on-year, according to data shared with SeafoodSource by McKinley Research Group, which provides research and consulting services for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

However, Alaska’s overall seafood exports to China are down thus far in 2022 compared to 2020, the year China signed the “Phase One” trade deal, via which it promised to purchase more American seafood and agricultural products .... 

Photo courtesy of NOAA