The Taoyuan City Government is helping aquafarms sell groupers to customers outside of China to soften the blow of a Beijing ban on Taiwanese grouper imports, Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) said on Wednesday.
Cheng made the remark on the sidelines of a policy conference on exporting farmed fish with representatives from other local governments at a Worldwide Union Group seafood packaging facility in the city’s Dayuan District (大園).
Beijing last month implemented a ban on grouper imports from Taiwan, saying that it had detected prohibited chemicals in some shipments.
China had been the biggest buyer of groupers raised in Taiwan prior the