TILAPIA PRODUCTION AND MARKET SITUATION IN 2012

Kevin Fitzsimmons, Ph.D.University of Arizona, Professor of Environmental Science

World Aquaculture Society, Past-President

Aquaculture without Frontiers, Past-Chairman

American Tilapia Association, Sec. Tres.

9 th International Forum on Tilapia

HaiKou, HaiNan

November 2012

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Top Ten Seafoods (U.S.)per capita (lbs)

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Shr imp 3.2 T una 2.9 T una 3.1 T una 3.4 T una 3.4 T una 3.1 T una 2.9 T una 2.7 Tuna 2.8 Tuna 2.5 Tuna 2.7 Tuna 2.6

P ol lock 1.6 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.2 Salmon 2.2 Salmon 2.4 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.4 Salmon 1.8 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.0

Salmon 1.5 P ol lock 1.2 P ol lock 1.1 P ol lock 1.7 P ol lock 1.7 P ol lock 1.5 P ol lock 1.6 P ol lock 1.7 Pollock 1.34 Pollock 1.45 Tilapia 1.45 Pollock 1.3

Catfi sh 1.1 Catfi sh 1.1 Catfi sh 1.1 Catfi sh 1.1 Catfi sh 1.1 Catfi sh 1.0 T i l api a 1. 0T i l api a 1. 14Tilapia 1.19 Tilapia 1.21 P ollock 1.2 Tilapia 1.3

Cod 0.8 Cod 0.6 Cod 0.7 Cod 0.6 T i lapia 0.7 T i lapia 0.8 Catfi sh 0.97 Catfi sh 0.90 Catfish 0.92 Catfish 0.85 Catfish 0.8 Pangasius 0.6

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Cr abs 0.4 Cr abs 0.4 Clams 0.5 T i lapia 0.5 Cr abs 0.6 Cod 0.6 Cod 0.5 Cod 0.47 Cod 0.44 Cod 0.42 Cod 0.5 Crabs 0.5

Flatfi sh 0.4 Flatfi sh 0.4 T i lapia 0.4 Clams 0.5 Clams 0.5 Clams 0.4 Clams 0.4 Clams 0.45 Flatfish 0.43 Clams 0.41 P angasius 0.4 Cod 0.5

Scal lops 0.3 T i lapia 0.4 Flatfi sh 0.3 Scal lops 0.3 Scal lops 0.3 Scal lops 0.3 Scal lops 0.3 Flatfi sh 0.32 Clams 0.42 Pangasius 0.35 Clams 0.35 Clams 0.3

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US Tilapia consumption (imports and domestic)437,000 mt of live weight (equivalent) - 2007

453,264 mt of live weight (equivalent) – 2008465,953 mt of live weight (equivalent – 2009)

579,443 mt of live weight (equivalent – 2010)513,361 mt of live weight (equivalent – 2011)

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$696,085,981(2009) $842,866,006(2010), $838,349,634 (2011)

$977,063,348 (2012)

• Imports through August 2012 were $651,375,565

• US production of 25,000,000 lbs at farm• 2012 US tilapia farm-gate sales will be over

$85,000,000• 2012 US Tilapia Sales estimate –

• $977,000,000 + $85,000,000 =

$1,080,236,208

US Sales of tilapia

Regions of rapid production growth• Vietnam – conversion of catfish cages to tilapia in Mekong,

and culture in all regions• Indonesia – cage culture, polycultures, rice culture• Malaysia – government support and private sector investment• Bangladesh – government support and private sector

investment• Brazil – lots of available water, labor, land, feed• Thailand – better reporting, shrimp polyculture• Mexico – continued intensification, some govt support, large

and small private investments• Sub-Saharan Africa - commercialization

Improvements in packaging

IQF Fillets in re-sealable

packages

Value added meals

New product forms

Smoked tilapia

Sashimi grade tilapia

Tilapia and food service

• On almost all cruise ships

• Starting to appear on airlines

• Increasingly with schools, hospitals and prisons

• Several prisons have their own tilapia farms

Courtesy: Eric Roderick

American Airlines 14 Jan 2011- Chicago - Delhi

Tilapia in Long John

Silver’s

McDonald’s and other

fastfoods could double tilapia global demand

Traditional product forms

Yangon BBQ tilapia

Byproducts - Tilapia Leather

Health and Beauty

Products

Tilapia Orange Juice

Tilapia pedicures

Global Tilapia Market TrendsPrices have been constant, only fresh fillets have increased

significantly, will not see increases beyond inflation

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Global Aquaculture Tilapia Sales

• For year 2000 =US $ 1,744,045000 (FAO FishStat 2007)

• 2005 sales = $ 2,457,312,000(FAO FishStat 2007)

• 2010 sales >$ 5,718,263,000(FAO FishStat 2012)

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Conclusions• Global tilapia production was 3,663,000

metric tons in 2011 (FAO, 2012), should exceed 3,800,000 MT in 2012. (4% growth)

• Constantly improving farming, processing and packaging for food safety, quality assurance, traceability, and environmental safeguards (with little, if any, increase in price).

• Other aquaculture species will follow the tilapia model.

Conclusions

• Tilapia has long been called the aquatic chicken.

• Instead…...

• The “terrestrial tilapia”

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