A Study on the Promising Market Analysis of Seafood Export in Prepartion for the U.S Marine Mammal Protection Act(MMPA)

This study investigated alternative markets for tuna, squid, and fish cakes subject to import regulations under the Marine Mammal Protection Act(MMPA) in the United States. When the MMPA import regulation is implemented, aquatic products and processed seafood produced by fishing that causes accidental death or injury of marine mammals will be prohibited from being exported to the United States. In this study, multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis were used to conduct country-by-country using the five-year trade data(2019-2023). In this study, We find the alternative market for tuna fillets(Japan, France, Italy and China), seasoned squid(China, Australia, Japan, Canada, Hong King and Vietnam), fish cakes(hilippines, Taiwan, Canada, Australia, China, and Canada)