The US is the world’s largest seafood importer by value, with an increasing share of imports composed of farmed seafood. Despite numerous policy initiatives, production and growth in the US aquaculture sector is limited, and there is a significant literature discussing potential explanations. In this paper the recent success of imported branzino is used to show that the market is not a constraint. Branzino is a portion-sized white-fleshed fish primarily farmed in the Mediterranean, with no obvious equivalents produced in the US. Since the turn of the century, imports have grown from zero to almost 10,000 metric tons, a quantity that would have made it the fourth-largest farmed fish species if produced in the US, and all is imported fresh. From 2015 when the quantities became more significant, the species entered the large whitefish market, although with a significant price premium relative to tilapia, the largest species in this market, indicating that the opportunity to create separate niches in the seafood market is limited.

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美国水产养殖者的市场机会：Branzino 案例

按价值计算，美国是世界上最大的海产品进口国，其中养殖海产品的进口份额越来越大。尽管有许多政策举措，但美国水产养殖部门的生产和增长有限，并且有大量文献讨论了潜在的解释。在本文中，进口布兰奇诺最近的成功被用来表明市场不是制约因素。Branzino 是一种部分大小的白肉鱼，主要在地中海养殖，在美国没有明显的等价物。自世纪之交以来，进口量从零增长到近 10,000 公吨，如果在美国生产，这一数量将使其成为第四大养殖鱼类，而且全部都是新鲜进口的。从 2015 年数量变得更加显着开始，该物种进入大型白鲑市场，