Tilapia Hole Sale in Africa

In recent years, China’s frozen tilapia has spread across the ocean and exported to the African market. It has won the favor of local consumers with low prices and excellent quality, but it has also caused certain impact on the local fragile aquaculture industry.
Africa is the main export destination for Chinese tilapia. According to statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in 2016, African countries imported 83,000 tons of frozen tilapia and tilapia fish rafts from China, accounting for 64% of China’s total frozen tilapia exports. In 2013, China exported a total of US$38.7 million worth of tilapia to Côte d’Ivoire. In the same year, China exported tilapia to Burkina Faso, Ghana and Togo for a total of US$14.7 million and US$4.8 million respectively. And $4 million.
Fish is a common dish on the table of African people, but for a long time, there is a huge gap between the market demand for food fish and local production in Africa, especially in West Africa. In Nigeria, for example, the country’s annual food fish market demand is around 3.2 million tons, of which only 1.1 million tons are produced locally, and the remaining 2.1 million tons are imported.
Similar to the situation in Nigeria, Ghana’s annual food fish market demand is about 1 million tons, but only 400,000 tons of it comes from the mainland. Senegal consumes about 24.5 kilograms of food fish per capita per year. The country’s food fish is heavily dependent on foreign imports because the country’s aquaculture farms have been overexploited by large foreign vessels, resulting in a significant decline in fishing.
Frozen tilapia imported from China is cheap and excellent, and is very popular among Africans and is very popular in the market. However, this has also had a certain impact on the fragile aquaculture industry in West Africa. According to the Kenyan National Daily, recently, in Mombasa, a port city in southeastern Kenya, sales of Chinese tilapia have been rising and entering retail stores at low prices.
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