出版社：Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture
摘要：Domestic seafood consumption in 2006 is likely to see a higher percentage of
overall consumption from foreign sources, a trend that has been going on for
some time. These imports stem in large part from foreign aquaculture
production. Almost all foreign countries are in the same situation as the
United States, with limited ways to increase their wild harvest fishing
industry, so they are expanding their aquacultural production. The continued
growth of the Atlantic salmon and tilapia industries provides good examples
of how farm-raised product is being used in rapidly expanding parts of the
U.S. seafood industry. In both these industries almost all the domestic
production and all the foreign imports come from farmed production. The
questions for the U.S. aquaculture industry are how best to compete with
growing foreign production and how to determine which market segments
are most favorable for domestic producers.
