Consultant predicts dropoff in Ecuadorian, Russian imports to China

Beijing-based seafood marketing consultancy Seabridge is predicting bullish growth for China's seafood import value in the coming years, predicting that inbound purchases will recover back to USD 15 billion (EUR 14.7 billion) in 2022 – close to the country’s all-time high value of USD 15.4 billion (EUR 15 billion) in 2019.

That figure is nearly double the 2017 figure. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a contraction of imports in China, but in 2021 imports of seafood – the figures exclude fish meal…

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