In 2025, China procured nearly 60% of Pakistan's seafood products for processing and re-export, with a 24% year-on-year increase in procurement volume, amounting to nearly USD 255 million. Pakistan stated that it is still constrained by Chinese procurement prices, and due to the diverse categories of its procurement, some fish species have poor market sales. After upgrading processing facilities, it will be possible to directly export processed products, including semi-cooked shrimp. The Punjab provincial government has launched an aquaculture project, a large-scale aquaculture plan, aiming to develop shrimp farming on 5,600 acres of land. The aquaculture project showed significant results in its first year and has now expanded, with production expected to increase over the next three to four years. This project is hailed as the largest blue economy investment in the province to date, aiming to transform the province's saline-alkali land and low-yield land into shrimp farming areas.