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Global Overview of the Ornamental Fish Industry

Challenges Trends and Outlook

Speaker： Shane Willis President - Ornamental Fish

International)

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Introduction • Major changes over the past 50 years,

• new technology, species, management practices

• Some changes not so good

• increasing amount of scrutiny being focused on biosecurity, sustainability, animal welfare and invasive species.

• Continuous changing regulation and increased expectation from consumers and other stakeholders will challenge our industry over coming years.

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Industry Snapshot

• Market has steadily grown since GFC, may be a downturn?

• Over 1 billion fish traded annually, based on avg value of $0.30USD

• 100 countries trade, with Asia continues to be the major supplier for fish, Singapore accounted for 16% of world exports for 2015 Asian countries supply around 70% of total world exports.

• USA remains the largest importer with around $50 million imported in 2014. The EU and Japan also important

• China imports now around $20 million (between mainland China and Hing Kong)

Singapore 16%

Japan 11%

Indonesia 8%

Czechia 7%

Sri Lanka 6%

Thailand 6%

Malaysia 5%

Netherlands 4%

Israel 4%

USA 4%

Other 29%

Major Exporters of Ornamental Fish in 2015 (Total exports $280,000,000 - FAO data)

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Market Trends

• Smaller aquarium and Nano tanks

• Smaller, less expensive species

• Aquascaping and planted tanks

• Invertebrates – shrimps

• Marines – growing importance due to cheaper, better aquarium equipment

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Ornamental Fish Export Trends

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$50,000

$100,000

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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Value of Ornamental Fish World Exports ($'000USD)

Commtrade data for 2015 $280 ,million of exports – is this incomplete data? This is a significant drop if the figures

are accurate!

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So what is happening with Sri Lanka?

• Exports are growing steadily, Marine and freshwater

• Major markets USA and EU

• Reef clean-up day a brilliant concept!

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$6.50

$8.94

$10.78

$16.25

2012 2013 2014 2015

Sri Lankan Ornamental Fish Exports (USD$, million)

Germany 21%

USA 14%

UK 5%

Japan 22%

France 19%

Other 19%

Major Export Destinations for Sri Lanka 2015 (USD$,million)

Germany USA UK Japan France Other

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So what are the challenges facing our industry?

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The Challenges

• Ornamental fish industry faces challenges from many different areas:

• Increased competition from other hobbies and pastimes

• Uncertain and changing regulations for trade

• Invasive species, GMO and environmental issues

• Animal welfare

• Disease, Health Status and Biosecurity

• These challenges come from government (legislation changes), also advocacy groups (environmental & animal rights group

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The Challenges?

• Impacts to exporters due to changing market conditions

• China – UK suspended shipments due to SVC

• Malaysia – EU Health Certificates for coldwater fish & recent

problems shipping to Singapore

• Changes to Health Certificates for Australia, Canada

• Restriction of trade in many species ie Koi in Spain

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Emerging Global Risks • Emerging global risks include:

• Climate Change impacting climates and particularly rainfall patterns

• Habitat Loss/land use changes impacting wild collection and farms

• Increasing water scarcity

• Pollution

• Human migration

• Brexit = changes to import/export between UK and EU Affect imports of third party countries ie Sri Lanka

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Aquatic Animal Welfare • Animal welfare for all animals is gathering

importance and means changes to how many agricultural sectors operate

• Increasing scrutiny on the welfare and sustainability of wild harvest and farming practices

• Fish in tanks/ponds is cruel

• We are destroying the environment

• Types of fish kept

• Increasing pressure to legislate minimum standards for operators in our industry = increase operating costs and maybe changes to fish we can trade

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Aquatic Animal Welfare

• Good operators already manage the welfare of fish, steps taken to ensure fish are healthy and present well for customers are all good welfare practices!

oWelfare = good practice = healthy fish = more profit

oWe need to communicate this more!!!

• Industry needs to avoid questionable activities

• painted / dyed / tattooed fish

• Poor fish keeping

• Respect local laws

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Sustainability

• Do we really harm the environment?

• What are the benefits of our trade

• Do we need to improve Best Practices?

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Invasive Alien Species

• Invasive Alien Species, keeping species with risks to biodiversity will be restricted.

• Invasive Alien Species (IAS) = non native species that can/could establish a breeding population and impacts the local waterways

• Some 400 species of ornamental fish could become invasive in different countries

• Fish

• Plants

• invertebrates

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Alien Invasive Species

• Many countries are addressing this through restricting species that can be imported

• Positive or white lists that can be imported/traded

• Noxious/banned or black lists that can’t be imported/traded • Spain recently listed Koi Carp as noxious

• We need to be aware of this, respect local laws, avoid releasing fish to natural waterways

• Educate customers, hobbyists

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IAS – Lionfish

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Invasive species

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Biosecurity and Health Certification

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Biosecurity – what is it?

• So what is biosecurity?

• measures to prevent or control disease spread

• Biosecurity not just about fish disease

• Increased antibiotic resistance in bacteria within our industry which can impact treatment of other animals and people

• Also increased zoonotics particularly TB – there is anecdotal data to suggest increased incidence in many fish rooms in the industry and that some of these infection as are proving harder to treat

Confidence in your product and market access!

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Biosecurity and Disease Status

• Animal health, restrictions to imports based on animal health risks.

• The Health Status of fish is important for export and essential for Health Certificates for export

• Regulations are becoming stricter in many countries

• International trade is likely to become more regulated / restricted due to disease transfer risks

• There is growing need to set up your facility as ‘Disease Free’ / ‘Biosecure’

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So What are the Opportunities for Sri Lanka?

• Shorter supply chains – closer to major markets = reduced freight? Encourage government and airlines to look at ways of reducing freight costs to major markets

• Sustainable practices: recent initiative like the reef clean and developing a ‘sustainable’ marine fishery are things that will be well accepted in the market

• Biosecurity and disease control: need to improve current practices and develop disease free status

• Continue development of new varieties livebearers, develop capacity in other species

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Thankyou

Any questions?

president@ofi.org