Is China losing its edge in whitefish processing?

With an aging population and rising wages, China is becoming less and less of an attractive country for whitefish processing, according to Gorjan Nikolik, analyst at Rabobank, speaking at Marel's inaugural Whitefish ShowHow in Copenhagen last week.

China's population, with its 1.35 billion people, is more than the western world, Russia, Japan and Brazil combined -- but its fast-aging population, thanks to the country's decades-long one-child policy, could be a very severe problem for the workforce by 2050.

In fact, the number of people in the working population hit a troublesome milestone in 2015.

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