Sales of shrimp from Ecuador to China soared by 229 percent in volume over 2011, but the US market still remains Ecuador’s largest, worth $374 million (€283.2 million).
China is developing into a large market for Ecuador’s farmed shrimp sector, which is the largest in the world behind Thailand, according to statistics supplied by one of the top processors to IntraFish.
Ecuadorian companies, of which Pescanova-owned Promarisco is the largest, exported 11.45 million pounds of shrimp to China, worth $33.31 million (€25.2
