Fair Enough? Food Security and the International Trade of Seafood

By Frank Asche, Marc F. Bellemare, C. Roheim, Martin D. Smith, S. Tveterås. 2015

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Does international trade make all parties better off? We study the relationship between food security and the international trade of fish and seafood between developing and developed countries. Specifically, we look at and discuss the evolution of trade flows – values, quantities, and prices – between developing and developed countries. The picture that emerges suggests that the quantity of seafood exported from developing countries to developed countries is close to the quantity of seafood imported by developing countries from developed countries. What takes place is a quality exchange: developing countries export high-quality seafood in exchange for lower quality seafood.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Economics and Econometrics

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Fish as feed: Using economic allocation to quantify the Fish In : Fish Out ratio of major fed aquaculture species (2020, background): “low pelagic fisheries may also allow for the imports of other food types and thus economically allowing for contributions to local nutrition (Asche et al., 2015).”
The development of large scale aquaculture production: A comparison of the supply chains for chicken and salmon (2016, background): “Still, aquaculture is in many ways a new industry, as systematic R&D did not commence on any significant scale until the 1970s (Asche, 2008; Kumar and Engle, 2016), and large-scale market impact did not occur until the 1990s (Asche et al., 2015).”
Sustainable intensification of aquaculture value chains between Asia and Europe: A framework for understanding impacts and challenges (2017, background): “The value of the overall international trade in seafood, of which the contribution of aquaculture continues to grow, now exceeds that of pork and poultry combined (Asche et al 2015).”
Sustaining healthy diets: The role of capture fisheries and aquaculture for improving nutrition in the post-2015 era (2016, background): “However, trade is bidirectional, with a trend for low-income countries to export high-market value fish products and import lowmarket value products for domestic consumption (Asche et al., 2015).”
Technological Advances that Led to Growth of Shrimp, Salmon, and Tilapia Farming (2016, background): “Seafood is the most traded food commodity (Asche et al., 2015) with 39% of volume traded and 77% exposed to trade competition (Tvetera s et al., 2012).”
U.S. seafood consumption (2019, background): “consumers, together with consumers in the European Union and Japan, have a high ability to pay, enabling them to compete for the seafood that is available (Asche et al., 2015).”