Global tilapia production has increased by almost 150 percent over the past 10 years and will continue on a fairly strong growth trend in the next few years, but prices have been decreasing, Ragnar Tveteras, business economist at the University of Stavanger, Norway, told delegates at the Global Aquaculture Alliance's GOAL 2017 conference in Dublin, Ireland.
Overall tilapia production is expected to climb by a further six percent this year to a level of 6.4 million metric tons (MT…