Chinese tilapia 'swimming back to domestic market'; following example of white shrimp
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS April 14, 2014
Why would the Hainan tilapias swim back to the domestic market from the overseas one?
On some afternoon of later March, it was a bustling scene inside the plant of Hainan Xiangtai Fishery in the economic development zone of the city’s older section. Large baskets of live tilapias were transported from Wenchang and Qionghai and went through such procedures as cutting, peeling, polishing, bone-removing, trimming, grading and cleaning on the production lines so as to get ready for the market.
All these processed tilapias used to be sold to the overseas markets, but these past two years have witnessed the change that some of the tilapias are provided to the domestic consumers.
Like Xiangtai Fishery, both Hainan Qinfu Industrial and Hainan Sky-blue Ocean Foods have shifted their attention from the overseas market and started the domestic market development.
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