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[burmanet2-l] Myanmar Exports 58,90 (r)



Subject: Re: [burmanet2-l] Myanmar Exports 58,900 Tons of Fish, Prawn (XINHUA)

A lot of this may be shipped to france, they love it.
Any facts and figures on European trade?

 
> Myanmar Exports 58,900 Tons of Fish, Prawn, XINHUA
> 
>  YANGON, September 14 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar exported a total of 58,900 tons
> of fish and prawn in fiscal 1998-99
> which ended in March, a 7.6 percent increase over the previous year.
> Figures provided by the country's Central Statistical Organization indicate
> that of the total export volume, fish accounted for 45,700 tons and prawn
> 13,200 tons. Export earnings of fish and prawn in 1998-99 totaled 149.3
> million U.S. dollars, 3.3 percent more than the previous year. Myanmar's
> annual per capita fish and prawn consumption is 18 kilograms. Myanmar,
> whose coastline extends 2,276 kilometers, is rich in fishery resources. The
> country's fish and prawn breeding ponds cover 40,680 hectares with annual
> fish and prawn output from the ponds amounting to 90,000 tons. In addition,
> Myanmar's rivers flow crisscross and fresh water fish, caught in rivers,
> amount to 150,000 tons. The country's average annual production of fish and
> prawn tops 910,000 tons, of which over 240,000 tons are fresh water fish
> and prawn, and 670,000 tons are deep sea fish and prawn. Since Myanmar
> adopted an open-door economic
> policy in late 1988, foreign investment, injected into the fishery sector,
> reached 197 million dollars.
> 
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