Originally Posted by
HIDDY
The variety of fish and seafood is not only woeful it's also very expensive.....and what there is mostly comes frozen. Merluza (Hake) is the only fish readily available. Strange when you think of the massive coastline the country has.
Most Argentine fish is exported. Iirc, Argentina exports more fish than beef. There's just no domestic demand for fish.
ETA: A couple of years old so don't know if the situation has reversed....
Fish exports have overtaken the more traditional beef exports, which reflects the rapid decline of the farming sector in recent years.
The latest figures seen by the BBC show that during the first quarter of 2011 Argentina exported more than 145,000 tons of fish and seafood, double the amount of beef sent abroad during the same period of time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14240882