Squid, hake and shrimp make up most of Argentine fisheries exports

Friday, October 3rd 2014 - 23:34 UTC

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Argentina exported 277.348 tons of seafood between January and August 2014, which represents a minimum rise of 0.01% compared to the 277.314 tons of the same period in 2013. Read full article

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Mendoza Canadian
So why are shrimp imported from Chile? The other day at Wal-Mart itsy bitsy tiny shrimp were $375 pesos per kilo. That's about $50. I bought shrimp in Canada (in Winnipeg which is about as far from the ocean as you can get) for $9 a kilo.
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ilsen
Because the Argentine Economic Minister couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel.
not that they haven't tried!
;-)
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Z-ville
Actually a closer reason is probably that they force as much as possible of the seafood catch to go to export to try and raise $$. Then they impose huge import fees and restrictions for importing the shrimp from Chile, to prevent the import from eating up the dollars they took in on the export.

So they manipulate the market while claiming free trade. And the predictable result is shortages and sky-high prices...
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