The year's first nine months results of Haikui Seafood -- a Frankfurt-listed Chinese canned and frozen seafood processor -- made way for probing questions regarding the shifting demand and supply drivers for Asian seafood trade.

Haikui reported both top line growth and bottom line increase in the first nine months of 2012, the company’s CFO Alan Gey said in a conference call Nov. 30.

Revenue went up 29 percent, gross profit increased by 32 percent and net profit by 14 percent.

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The gross profit came under pressure from rising raw material prices, resulting in 11 percent lower sales in the domestic Chinese market for products such as squid, cuttlefish and shrimp.

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