The growth in the Chinese market has been viewed more as opportunity than threat in the seafood industry -- but companies need to look at the financial impact.

“By 2030, 40 percent of the world’s seafood will be consumed by China, yet nobody in this room knows a lot about China,” said James Anderson, a World Bank advisor who has authored the report"‘Fish to 2030."

“Twenty years ago China wasn’t even on the map – this is the elephant in the room and we need to talk about it,” Anderson said on a panel at the IntraFish Seafood Investor Forum last Tuesday in New York City.

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