China displaced Peru and now leads the production of Amazonian fish

Published 2023년 2월 28일

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China has emerged as the world's leading producer of red pacu fish, a species native to the Amazon region and river basins, surpassing countries like Peru, Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela. The fish, commonly sold online in China for around US$1 per kilogram, was produced in quantities of 59,400 tons in 2020, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. China's dominance in the global fish market is further underscored by its production of 83.9 million metric tons of capture and aquaculture fish in the same year, the highest globally. The article also discusses the challenges Brazil faces in competing in the aquarium market, where it currently relies on wild harvesting rather than cultivation, contrasting with China's advanced captive-rearing techniques.

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(Agraria.pe) China became the largest producer of Amazonian fish after consolidating its production of red pacu or pirapitinga, a typical fish from the Amazon region and the Araguaia and Tocantins river basins. Thus, the Asian country displaced Peru and other Latin American countries such as Brazil and Colombia from the top regarding the production of this species. The pirapitinga is also known as red cachama, red belly pacu or morocó, among other names. Currently, on the Chinese online trading site AliBaba, this gray fish with a red belly sells for between US$0.80 and US$1.23 per kilogram. Records of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for 2020 indicate that the Asian giant produced 59,400 tons of this fish. They are followed by Colombia (33,000 tons), Vietnam (23,000), Peru (2,100) and Brazil (1,800), the BBC cited in a recent publication. In addition to the production of fish for human consumption, China and other Asian nations have become a ...

Source: Agraria