It might be receiving a battering elsewhere, but pangasius has a pretty strong safety net if it has lodged itself in the INR 75,000 crore (€10.6 billion/$13.8 billion) Indian food services industry, which is expected to reach INR 1,37,000 crore (€19.4 billion/$25.3 billion) by 2015.
Vietnamese tra (Pangasius hypophthalmus), which is marketed as basa in the Indian market, has grown leaps and bounds in the last three years, industry players told IntraFish.
Propelled by its low pricing and year round availability, pangasius has made its way into several tiers in the restaurant scene -- coveted because it comes in a deboned, filleted format, and restaurants can use it in a variety of ways, and at almost half the price that local fish demand.
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