HONG KONG SHELLFISH, FINFISH AND CRUSTACEAN MARKET RECOVERS AFTER SARS CRISIS
January 1st, 2008
BY MARK GODFREY
A GLANCE at the bustling Kwun Tong Wholesale Fish Market suggests Hong Kong's live seafood market is thriving. Every morning with typical Hong Kong efficiency fish are hauled from holding tanks onto queuing trucks fitted with wooden boxes and air pumps.
The fish is usually headed to city hotels and restaurants. An average 150,000 tonnes of live sea fish was imported to Hong Kong in the last two years, though figures are difficult to ascertain since this being a free port, locally registered trawlers are not obliged to declare catches.
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