Shrimp - arthropods, crustaceans, decapods, swimming suborder animals, there are nearly 2000 species. According to the different sources of production, divided into saltwater shrimp and freshwater shrimp, the main saltwater shrimp, including shrimp, red shrimp, brown shrimp, prawns, pipistrelle shrimp, etc.; the main freshwater shrimp, including river shrimp, prawns, shrimp, grass shrimp and so on. Usually, the saltwater shrimp is large in size, looks strong in appearance and darker in color, while the freshwater shrimp is slender in size and lighter in color. Overall, saltwater shrimp is more expensive than freshwater shrimp, but it also tastes better and is more flavorful than freshwater shrimp.

　　Table regulars Nutritional value of shrimp

　　Shrimp is rich in nutrients, rich in protein and calcium, and its meat is fluffy, easy to digest, is the body weak and sick people need to regulate the quality of nutritional supplements.

　　Shrimp is rich in magnesium, magnesium has an important role in regulating cardiac activity, can well protect the cardiovascular system, reduce blood cholesterol content, preventing atherosclerosis, but also expand the coronary arteries, is conducive to the prevention of hypertension and myocardial infarction.

　　Shrimp is a regular guest on our dinner table, loved by our consumers, and the domestic production of shrimp is far from supporting the huge consumption, so China imports a large number of shrimp aquatic products every year. Tianjin port, for example, shrimp imports can account for the total amount of imported edible aquatic products six to seventy percent.

　　Common imported shrimp profile

　　01　South American white shrimp Litopenaeus Vannamei

　　South American white shrimp is the shrimp family, coastal shrimp genus animals, Chinese literature named Vannabin shrimp. The longest adult body up to 23 cm, thin carapace, the normal body color is greenish blue or light greenish gray, the whole body does not have mottled. Footsteps are often chalky, so there is a white limb shrimp called.

　　South American white shrimp native to the Pacific coastal waters of South America, mainly distributed in the western United States tropical waters along the Pacific coast, from the Gulf of Mexico to central Peru are distributed to Ecuador near the sea is more centralized, so Ecuador is also our country's imports of South American white shrimp the largest number of countries. Need to be reminded that, although called South American white shrimp, but the shrimp is not only the output of South American countries. At present, China's access to South American white shrimp in addition to Ecuador, Peru and Malaysia, the United States, Denmark and so on.

　　As the South American white shrimp market prospects, a long history of farming, China is also vigorously develop the South American white shrimp farming industry. In recent years, China's total production of South American white shrimp farming (including mariculture and freshwater aquaculture) continued to rise, adapting to the technological improvements in the production of varieties in the production area so that the breeding of South American white shrimp is no longer restricted, from the extension of sea water aquaculture to freshwater aquaculture, the scope of production is constantly expanding, so that our country's production of white shrimp farming accounted for the proportion of the total production year by year to increase the proportion of the proportion of seawater aquaculture is higher than the proportion of freshwater aquaculture and the production is also increasing year by year. South American white shrimp farming in China has a clear advantage in shrimp farming, playing an increasingly important role.

　　02   Black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon

　　Black tiger shrimp, also known as ghost shrimp, spot shrimp, grass shrimp, etc., the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations commonly known as: tiger shrimp, Chinese name for spot shrimp. The body is covered with black-brown, earthy yellow interspersed with transverse spots pattern, frontal horn lateral groove is quite deep, extending to the back of the supraocular spines, but the frontal horn lateral ridges lower and blunt, frontal horn after the central ridge groove is obvious, there is a clear hepatic ridge, there is no frontal gastric spine. The shrimp is the largest individual shrimp of a kind, the largest individual found up to 33 cm long, weighing 500 to 600 grams, there are "shrimp in the tiger" reputation.

　　Black tiger prawns strong vitality, meat flavor, its astaxanthin content is about 20% higher than ordinary shrimp, and with the conditions of the sale of fresh shrimp, so its economic value is high. This shrimp wide diet, omnivorous shrimp, not only eat animal bait, but also can eat plant bait, is a good aquaculture objects, has been in China's eastern and southern coasts and Southeast Asian countries as a good breed of extensive breeding. Vietnam is one of the countries with large production of both wild and farmed black tiger prawns, and is also the most important country in China's imports of black tiger prawns.

　　03   Arctic shrimp Pandalus borealis

　　Arctic shrimp, commonly known as the Arctic sweet shrimp, sweet shrimp, shrimp, etc., the Chinese name of the northern forehead shrimp. Arctic shrimp is mainly distributed in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean waters, is currently the world's largest production, the best protection of resources of wild cold water shrimp. Global annual fishing production of Arctic shrimp is about 250,000 tons, the Chinese market imports of cold water shrimp is rising trend, is the world's largest consumer market of Arctic shrimp. Most of China's imports of Arctic Shrimp come from Canada, so Arctic Shrimp is often referred to as Canadian Arctic Shrimp in China. The Arctic shrimp fisheries in Canada and Greenland are certified as sustainable fisheries by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).

　　China's imports of Arctic shrimp are mainly frozen cooked Arctic shrimp, live sweet shrimp in the catch up, immediately on board for pre-cooking, grading, freezing, packaging, the entire processing process less than half an hour, fully guarantee the freshness of shrimp.

　　Customs Tips

　　Fresh shrimp caught up in order to facilitate the preservation of the usual rapid freezing into the cold storage, so China's imports of shrimp products are basically frozen state, product access to the state is also mainly frozen.

　　General Administration of Customs of foreign countries (regions) to carry out assessment and review of food safety management system and food safety status, to determine the country (region) to obtain access to the list of aquatic products, and to "meet the requirements of the assessment and review and have a traditional trade in the country or region of food exports to China directory" - "aquatic products The list of aquatic products is published on the website of the General Administration of Customs (GAC) in the form of sub-catalog of "Food Products from Countries or Regions with Traditional Trade that Meet the Requirements for Assessment and Examination" - "Aquatic Products", which is available at http://43.248.49.223/. The General Administration of Customs dynamically updates the catalog. If you want to know more about food industry, please pay attention to Sial Shenzhen 2024.