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This year's squid harvest was unusual from the start. Southern Patagonia, located south of the 49°S parallel, is not exploited by a powerful fleet, but is operated by a fleet 200 miles away. However, since the start of the season, the crews of the 70-vessel Potera fleet have found surprising concentrations of squid in the area and at this time of year.

According to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the United States imported more than 5,000 tons of clams from other countries in the first quarter of 2023. Its value more than $15 million, ...

As of May, South Korea imported a total of 538,472 tons of seafood, including 8,475 tons of frozen squid tubes, compared with 2,766 tons in May, an increase of 30% from 2,133 tons in the previous year. Cumulative imports as of May were 8,475 tons, up 10 percent from 7,706 tons in the previous year.

Seafood has relatively high requirements for long-term preservation and long-distance transportation. In order to keep seafood fresh, people tried all kinds of ways, as for the effect of preservation is not the same. In the same way, we will briefly introduce the common ways of seafood preservation. The main processing methods are as follows: fresh, chilled, frozen and dry. Frozen is also divided into sea frozen and land frozen according to the processing location.

Traditionally, the four most famous fishing grounds in the world are the Hokkaido fishing grounds in Japan, the Newfoundland fishing grounds in Canada, the North Sea fishing grounds in the United Kingdom and the Peruvian fishing grounds in Peru. These fisheries are famous for their rich fishery resources and unique reasons for their formation. Nowadays, with global warming and changes in fishery resources, the emerging four major fishing grounds are gradually replacing the traditional fishing grounds as the new fishing centres.