What Is The Current Position Of The Pakistan Fish Industry?
Pakistan has a national as well as an international market for its fish, which includes both fish products and shrimp products. As far as the international scene is concerned, about six percent of the country’s foreign exchange comes from fish exports. The most important market for Pakistan’s fish exports is Japan. Other countries to which Pakistan exports its fish products include the United States, West Germany, United Kingdom and also France. Middle East is also one of the major importers of fish from Pakistan. Almost about eighty percent of the fish that is caught on the Makran coast is dried and prepared for export to the Middle East. As for the domestic market, the marine fisheries supply their respective outcomes to local fish markets. The channel member that makes it possible is the wholesaler, who is the prime link in the channel of fish distribution in the local Pakistani market. Moreover street hawkers in Karachi, which is the main fishing centre, also buy fish and engage in
