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8. Hvor intet andet er bemærket bygger dette og følgende
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19. Følgende gennemgang bygger på artiklen »Shrimps in
Turmoil« af Charles J. Peckham, bragt i Seafood Internati-
onal januar 1999.
Summary
The Seafood trade is one of the world’s largest and fastest-
growing industries. The annual turnover is more than 60 bil-
lion dollars and involves more than 200 countries. Among
the most important individual products are shrimps which,
around the turn of the millennium represented 20% of the
value of the world market. The modern shrimp industry is a
relatively new phenomenon, which has expanded over the
last hundred years or so. For a long time, shrimps were a
luxury item for the wealthy and small numbered upper
class, and only after WWII did the shrimp industry get its
commercial breakthrough. The article summarises the most
important characteristics of the period’s market develop-
ment, with special focus on the realities of the global mar-
ket throughout the last three decades.
As a whole, the development of the global shrimp indu-
stry, during the years from 1870 to 2003 is marked by a hef-
ty expansion. No other fishing sector can show a similar
consistent growth rate in the 20th century and today no
other fishing sector can show a turnover that can match that
of the global shrimp industry. In this article some characte-
ristics that have led to this position, are pointed out. In the
following, these are to be summarised in relation to the
period used in the article.
The period from 1870 to 1930 can be characterised as an
establishing phase for the shrimp industry in which, the ba-
sic framework for further development was marked out. An
infrastructural network was set up, which made possible a
more regular dispersal to the attractive markets in northwest
America and European cities. Concurrently with this, the
technical side of the actual transport system was developed
– with refrigeration capacity and special transport units – so
that the goods could reach the markets in a saleable condi-
tion. Furthermore, an all-encompassing institutional net-
work, in the form of insurance companies and contract
experts were established, which considerably reduced the
market risks. The individual operators, who previously ris-
ked large fortunes by just hoping for deliveries of fresh
shrimps to distant markets, were now insured and, at the
same time, the steadily increasing demand could be met.
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