Taste of Falklands’ squid at the largest seafood event in the event in China
Falkland Islands fishing company Georgia Seafoods joined Scottish and English seafood producers to exhibit as part of the UK pavilion at the China Fisheries & Seafood Exposition held in Dalian, China last week.
A representative of the company assisted by a translator promoted the company’s products Patagonian and Antarctic Toothfish to importers and distributors from all over Asia.
The show has become the largest seafood event in the world and over 18,000 visitors from 80 different countries attended this year.
There were 2300 exhibitor booths, an increase of 30% since the last time the show was held in Dalian in 2010.
Chinese seafood production and exports are growing but the domestic demand for premium seafood such as lobster, crab and high quality wild-caught whitefish that cannot be farm-raised continues to rise dramatically.
Chefs on the UK pavilion prepared samples of Georgia Seafood fish and visitors were invited to compare the two species of Toothfish, Patagonian Toothfish and Antarctic Toothfish.
The company sponsored a Taste of Britain reception evening. Falklands Patagonian squid and Toothfish were served to invited guests.
Georgia Seafood is the operator of the Falklands long-liner TRONIO which fishes in the MSC South Georgia Patagonian Toothfish fishery and the MSC Ross Sea Antarctic Toothfish fishery. (FIRS)
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what a pittyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
If the squid is patagonian is argentine. No other way.
Hope to see more of the same.
But Argentina stole Patagonia, thieves murderers, pirates etc...
Of course, the Chinse support Argentina 100% right? They would never trade with the Falkland Islands. Oh wait a minute, the Chinese couldn't give a flying fig about Argentina.
They just want quality products and fair prices.
By the way, no country is entitled to own the fish in the sea. So your entire post is inaccurate, irrelevant and very, very desperate!
As it already is it is hard to dispute and if they teach that to their kids they may forget about the Falklands altogether.
“perhaps someone will throw them a lifeline........?”
they will have better luck finding an argentine poiltician actually changing their dollars for pesos, or a S.A country actually standing by argentina in its expansionist aspirations, or an argentine vessel actually finishing its patrol without being towed back in, or Govt run INDEC actually releasing the OFFICIAL Argentine inflation figures....
....snowballs chance in hell.
www.fao.org/fishery/species/2713/en
Correct me if I am wrong, but does not CHILE have a part of Patagonia or does Argentina now claim the whole area ?
I note that the largest catches were in FALKLAND ISLAND waters - NOT ARGENTINA
Patagonian is a region, part of Arg and Chile only.
Don't start that rubbish again.
Patagonia is a region, not a political entity. The name was thought up by Magellan, before Argentina or Chile were even thought of.
You don't own the penguins, and you don't own the squid. They do not recognise your geopolitical pretensions.
And the Falkland Islands have been British longer than Patagonia has been Argentinian, hasn't it?
But again your posts are irrelevant. No one disputes what the squid is called, but it was caught by Falklands fishermen in Falklands waters.
Get over yourself. Just because an animal is called after a region doesn't make it the property of that region.
If that were the case, you wouldn't be able to buy Cornish pasties outside of Cornwall, Scotch eggs outside of Scotland, French Onion Soup outside of France, Begium waffles outside of Belgium, Chicken Kiev outside of Kiev...you get the picture?
You posts show you to be immature.
And yes Patagonia is part of 2 countries arg chile, with geopolitical divisions.
regions for us are subdivisions of the country according to weather, geography, characteristics, etc.
6000 years, and then the Argentinians came along and committed genocide against them, stole their land, and forced the survivors to live under colonial subjugation, or tried to wipe them out through rape, murder and ethnic cleansing.
Even today the indigenous people of Patagonia are marginalised, sidelined and are still having their land stolen by the Argentine government.
Argentina has only existed since 1853. That's not 6000 years is it?
Patagonia was a name given by Magellan not the indigenous population and the squid don't care whether they're called Patagonian, Chilean, Falkland, Asian or French. It's completely irrelevant.
They were caught by Falkland fishermen and taken to this seafood event in China. The Chinese don't care if the squid are Patagonian, French, Polynesian, Falkland or Mongolian.
They only care if they taste good, and can be bought for a reasonable price.
Move along Malen, nothing for you here. :)
This doesn't mean China isn't going to be pragmatic when it comes to trade in product that is in demand.
I never knew territorial integrity spread to animals/birds/fish that happen to share a name with a place although I do think it would make the world that little bit more interesting. Just think of the exciting trade disputes if Atlantic City decides to make a claim to all the Atlantic Cod that are caught or the Portuguese Navy has to take responsibility for every injury at the hands of a Portuguese Man O' War jellyfish.
what she actually said is - lets catch as many as we can so the the Falkland's have less to catch”
you are fired!
What about poor old Chile? Don't they own any of Patagonia?
I think that depends on what side of the border you are standing on. The Chileans may well say no one likes the Argentines. In the Falklands you may not find many people who like the Argentines either. Especially if they try to claim our fish!
Are you without doubt and by far (according to you) the most intelligent person to have ever stepped onto these threads?
Thankfully NML is clearing the South Atlantic of pirate ships.
'no ones likes chilotes in Patagonia'
No one likes people from Chiloe?
You really are a poor excuse for a troll...
try to reside in Patagonia, lol
and then state the facts
And Patagonia is of southamericans.
Skare yensere-ly Isolde are UK team screen names....
lol
Think..... all what you keep saying about sussie is incorrect.
As people from the Falkland Islands moved to and settled in Patagonia before the genocidal pirates from Buenos Aires arrived, Patagonia is British by prior settlement therefore the fish are British fish. (From the Falklands to Patagonia-Mainwaring).
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