Research and Markets : Fundamental principles of international trade applied to fisheries: The International Seafood Trade

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c22948) has announced the addition of The international seafood trade to their offering


The International Seafood Trade is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of this complex and dynamic business. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the seafood industry and its economics, with contributions from a range of specialist researchers and practitioners, it examines every link in the market chain which leads from the world's seas, rivers and lakes to the consumer's plate. In so doing it furnishes an account of the events, policies and institutions that have shaped and continue to drive this remarkable industry. Featuring comprehensive statistical analyses, chapters consider trends in capture and aquaculture production and in the international seafood trade generally, and examine volumes and patterns of trade in each of the major seafood groups – shrimp and prawns; salmon and trout; tuna; groundfish; crab and lobster; and cephalopods. Further chapters consider price discovery mechanisms; seafood market research; emerging issues such as aquaculture and rights-based fisheries management; market innovations such as seafood futures and ecolabeling and institutions of significance to the conduct and management of the seafood trade worldwide.

- The first comprehensive updateable treatment of the world wide meat market place
- Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the seafood industry and its economics
- Features additional contributions from a range of specialist researchers and practitioners
- Examines trading volumes and patterns in each of the major seafood groups – shrimp and prawns; salmon and trout; tuna; groundfish; crab and lobster; and caphalopods
- Essential reading for everyone in the business – seafood traders, fishing company and aquaculture managers, exporters, importers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers

The International Seafood Trade provides the most comprehensive picture yet available of the dynamics and structure of the global seafood market at the beginning of the 21st century, and will be essential reading for all those new to or already involved in the seafood and ancillary industries worldwide – whether as importers, exporters, distributors, wholesalers, retailers or food service industries. It will serve as an invaluable reference for all seafood traders, seafood procurement managers, managers of fishing companies or aquaculture firms, strategic planners and investors, and will also be of enormous interest to public sector fisheries and aquaculture managers and regulators, environmentalists and ecologists.








Contents are entitled as follows:-

Introduction
James L Anderson

Trends in capture and aquaculture production
James L Anderson, Jonathan R King & Josue Martinez-Garmendia

Trends in the international seafood trade
James L Anderson & Josue Martinez-Garmendia

Trade by major seafood group
James L Anderson, Josue Martinez-Garmendia & Jonathan R King

Fundamental principles of international trade applied to fisheries
James L Anderson

Price discovery
James L Anderson & Josue Martinez-Garmendia

Seafood market research
James L Anderson & Josue Martinez-Garmendia

Aquaculture, fisheries and evolution of the market
James L Anderson


Institutions and measures of importance to international trade in seafood
Jonathan R King and James L Anderson

The seafood consumer, trade and the environment

Appendix: International trade in shrimp: a case study
Michael J Bush


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