Medidas de Gestao das Pescarias Marinhas e Aquicultura 2019 The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 | Page 71

THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2018
TABLE 16
TOP TEN EXPORTERS AND IMPORTERS OF FISH AND FISH PRODUCTS
2006
Country
2016
APR a
(%)
Value
(million USD) Share
(%) Value
(million USD) Share
(%)          
China 8 968 10.4 20 131 14.1 8.4
Norway 5 503 6.4 10 770 7.6 6.9
Viet Nam 3 372 3.9 7 320 5.1 8.1
Thailand 5 267 6.1 5 893 4.1 1.1
United States of America 4 143 4.8 5 812 4.1 3.4
India 1 763 2.0 5 546 3.9 12.1
Chile 3 557 4.1 5 143 3.6 3.8
Canada 3 660 4.2 5 004 3.5 3.2
Denmark 3 987 4.6 4 696 3.3 1.7
Exporters
Sweden
1 551 1.8 4 418 3.1 11.0
Top ten subtotal 41 771 48.4 74 734 52.4 6.0
Rest of world total 44 523 51.6 67 796 47.6 4.3
World total 86 293 100.0 142 530 100.0 5.1
Importers

United States of America 14 058 15.5 20 547 15.1 3.9
Japan 13 971 15.4 13 878 10.2 -0.1
China 4 126 4.5 8 783 6.5 7.9
Spain 6 359 7.0 7 108 5.2 1.1
France 5 069 5.6 6 177 4.6 2.0
Germany 4 717 5.2 6 153 4.5 2.7
Italy 3 739 4.1 5 601 4.1 4.1
Sweden 2 028 2.2 5 187 3.8 9.8
Republic of Korea 2 753 3.0 4 604 3.4 5.3
United Kingdom 3 714 4.1 4 210 3.1 1.3
Top ten subtotal 60 533 66.6 82 250 60.7 3.1
Rest of world total 30 338 33.4 52 787 39.3 5.7
World total 90 871 100.0 135 037 100.0 4.0
a
APR: average annual percentage growth rate for 2006–2016.
Behind China, Norway is the next largest
exporter of fish and fish products. Norway has
developed an extensive salmonid aquaculture
sector and maintains a large fishing f leet,
targeting cod, herring, mackerel and other
whitefish and small pelagic species. Compared
with 2015, Norwegian exports rose by 17.2
percent in 2016, reaching USD 11.7 billion, and
by a further 5.1 percent in 2017, because of high
changes in consumption habits create markets for
species not produced locally. After years of
sustained growth up to 2011, Chinese imports of
fish and fish products then experienced a
slowdown in expansion, and in 2015 they
declined slightly. However, after an increase of
4 percent in 2016, Chinese imports rebounded
strongly in 2017, with an increase of 21 percent
over 2016, in line with an upturn in the economy.
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