@article{Delgado:91857,
      recid = {91857},
      author = {Delgado, Christopher L. and Courbois, Claude B.},
      title = {CHANGING FISH TRADE AND DEMAND PATTERNS IN DEVELOPING  COUNTRIES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR POLICY RESEARCH},
      address = {1997-10},
      number = {595-2016-40002},
      series = {MSSD DISCUSSION PAPER},
      pages = {27},
      year = {1997},
      abstract = {Trends for major fisheries products are evaluated for the  past two decades,
using aggregate annual data. Major  changes have been propelled by income
growth, changes in  preferences and health concerns about meat in  developed
countries, leading to increased consumption of  high-valued fisheries items such
as shell and filet fish.  Developing countries, especially East Asia, are  rapidly
increasing consumption of lower valued fishery  items, and fish-culture is
becoming an increasingly  important source of food and exports. Developed
countries  accounted for 85 percent of net world fish imports in 1994,  mostly at
the high end of the value spectrum, from about  twenty countries. In the ten
years preceding 1993, the net  value of fisheries exports from developing
countries went  from less than a third of net developing country exports of  sugar,
beverage crops and tropical specialty products  combined, to a level exceeding
that total. While real fish  prices have remained relatively stable since 1970,  real
beef prices have declined by 300 percent, suggesting  that a rally in meat prices
would further accentuate the  shift to fish. Current evidence suggests a 15
percent  relative strengthening of fish prices to beef through  2020.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/91857},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.91857},
}