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Shanghai Fisheries General Corp. (Group) (Shanghai Deepsea Fisheries Co., Ltd.) takes deepsea fishing as its main industry and owns over 100 assorted vessels currently, including large stern factory trawlers, tuna purse seriners, tuna longliners being caught in high sea and others being caught in foreign territorial waters. 18 joint ventures or representative offices have also been set up in 12 countries or regions, so it has formed export-oriented arrangement. SFGCG was awarded the Contribution Reward for Outward Investment Enterprise in Shanghai and is one of top 20 transnational operation enterprises in Shanghai.
Since the beginning of the mid 1980s, Shanghai Fisheries Group has faced the decline of offshore fisheries resource and seized the chance that some powerful fisheries countries withdrew ocean fishing industry gradually. Taking the lead in China in importing large stern factory trawler with 3180 tons named KAICHUANG in 1985, which was taken a symbol, it started its deepsea transnational operation. After development of 20 years, it has owned four large factory trawlers with 8000 tons each, one factory trawler with 4000 tons, five large tuna purse seiners with 1000 tons, 5 deep frozen tuna longliners, six large squid jiggers and other fishing vessels and transport ships, which has become the most powerful high sea fishing enterprise in China.
Main species caught by Shanghai Fisheries Group are tuna, jack mackerel, squid, octopus, pollock and other economic fishes, most of which are sold in international market. The total annual catch in 2006 was 166600 tons and volume of import and export was USD 62 million. |
