Seafood exports from developing countries have increased twice as quickly as those from industrial nations. Conversely, industrial countries import nearly seven times as much as developing nations. The result, some fear, is that the industrialized world will end up sucking the developing world dry. The effects are already apparent in coastal Thailand. The Pak Phanang fish market, on an inlet off the Gulf of Thailand, once thrived, local people say.
Sales are terrible.
There's no fish coming in and no one to buy it anymore,'' said Yupa Satae, as she sat cross-legged on a table, occasionally pouring water over her meager wares.