Chinese Farmers Changing from Tilapia to Pangasius Find Themselves with Too Many Fish
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Shuichan] translated by Amy Zhong - December 18, 2017
Xu, the president for a freshwater fish aquaculture cooperative in Maoming city of Guangdong asked Agricultural Wealth, an influential magazine in the South China, for help on Dec. 14. Farmers in this cooperative are very upset because there are no buyers for about 400,000 jin (200,000 kg) of basa fish stocked in local ponds. These fish weigh between one to five jin (0.5 to 2.5 kg) each and some have been raised for as long as two years. Basa fish are acceptable in markets when ...
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