@article{10902/24639,
year = {2022},
month = {3},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/24639},
abstract = {The US is the world's largest seafood importer by value, with an increasing share of imports composed of farmed seafood. Despite numerous policy initiatives, production and growth in the US aquaculture sector is limited, and there is a significant literature discussing potential explanations. In this paper the recent success of imported branzino is used to show that the market is not a constraint. Branzino is a portion-sized white-fleshed fish primarily farmed in the Mediterranean, with no obvious equivalents produced in the US. Since the turn of the century, imports have grown from zero to almost 10,000 metric tons, a quantity that would have made it the fourthlargest farmed fish species if produced in the US, and all is imported fresh. From 2015 when the quantities became more significant, the species entered the large whitefish market, although with a significant price premium relative to tilapia, the largest species in this market, indicating that the opportunity to create separate niches in the seafood market is limited.},
organization = {Financial support from NOAA (NA21OAR4170091 and NA21OAR4170093), USDA Hatch project number 1015617, Horizon
2020 project MedAID (GA number 727315), and Florida Sea Grant is acknowledged. The conclusions are those of the researcher(
s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding organizations.},
publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
publisher = {Marine Resource Economics, volume 37, number 2, April 2022},
title = {Market Opportunities for US Aquaculture Producers: The Case of Branzino},
author = {Asche, Frank and Garlock, Taryn and Camp, Edward and Guillen, Jordi and Kumar Ganesh and Llorente García, Ignacio and Shamshak, Gina},
}