China at a Crossroads: An Analysis of China's Changing Seafood Production and Consumption

• DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.013
• Publication Date: 2020-07-24T14:36:30Z
• Authors: Beatrice Crona; Emmy Wassénius; Max Troell; Kate Barclay; Tabitha Mallory; Michael Fabinyi; Wenbo Zhang; Vicky W.Y. Lam; Ling Cao; Patrik J.G. Henri...; Hampus Eriksson
• Keywords: Consumption

China is a key player in global production, consumption, and trade of seafood. Given this dominance, Chinese choices regarding what seafood to eat, how where source it, are increasingly important—for China, for the rest world. This perspective explores issue using transdisciplinary approach discusses plausible trajectories implications assumptions future modeling efforts environmental sustainability supply. We outline China's 2030 projected domestic production consumption through an examination available statistics, qualitatively evaluate these relation stated policy targets, consumer trends, dominant political narratives. Our analysis shows that by likely see outstrip production. To meet gap will attempt increase freshwater offshore aquaculture, imports, possibly expand distant water fishing industry, invest abroad.