During my stay in Kenya after understanding the fertile market possibilities of Kenya, i researched a lot about the best business that would work in Kenya for that time . I came up with this very idea of importing marine product to Kenya. I had a chat with my friend Sruthi who is doing research in Fisheries(Doing masters in fisheries at Coimbatore ). She came up with a list of most important marine products suitable for export from Kerala. Due to some reasons i couldn’t make out my plan. Any way i thought about sharing the data which i collected for that purpose with you.
- Kerala Fisheries industry ?
Frozen items like Shrimp, Fish, Cuttle Fish and Squid constitute 90% of marine export from the State. The European Union is the largest export market, accounting to more than 50% of the total marine exports. China (9.4%) is the single largest market followed by USA (7.3%).
1 Shrimp:
Black tiger head on shell on
Brown headless shell on
Read ring pealed and deveined(PD)
pealed and undeveined(PUD)
fantailed round(FR)
frozen/chilled/cooked products
2 Prawn
Scampii headless shell on(frozen/chilled products)
head on shell on
3.Octopus:
- whole gutted(frozen/chilled products).octopus cleaned
4.Squid:
Whole Round Squid
Squid Whole Cleaned
Squid Tube and Tentacles
Squid Tubes
Squid rings and tentacles
frozen/chilled/cooked products
Whole Round Squid
Squid Whole Cleaned
Squid Tube and Tentacles
Squid Tubes
Squid rings and tentacles
frozen/chilled/cooked products
5 Cuttlefish:
cuttlefish whole cleaned
whole round cuttlefish
cuttlefish fillet
6 Crab:
- mud crab
- whole crab(frozen/chilled products) claws.
7 Lobster:
- lobster whole(frozen/chilled products)
8 Fish:
Species:
- Reef cod frozen/chilled products
- Emperor gutted
- White snapper headless
- Ribbonfish streaks
- Pomfrets fillets
- Seerfish fish whole
- Mackeral cooked products
- Tuna canned products
- Cobia
- Sardine
Product types:
- frozen/chilled products
- gutted
- headless
- streaks
- fillets
- fish whole
- cooked products
- canned products
