Towards Sustainability in Seed Supply for African Catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) Culture in Kenya: Lessons from Asian Catfishes Industry

Figure 3

Annual production and export volumes of farmed channel catfish, I. punctatus production in China, 2003–2019. Source: [68]. Annual production rose sharply between 2003 and 2010, before stabilizing at around 245,000 metric tonnes for about 5 years, then rose above 250,000 tonnes. While commercial production of the species in China started around 2003, substantial export for the species started around 2007 and peaked in 2008–2009, because of the market opportunities arising from the ban on Vietnamese P. hypophthalmus exports to the USA by the anti-dumping Laws of 2003 [69]. Source: [70].