Table 6.
Consumer prices for aquaculture products in local markets in southwestern Bangladesh
| Aquaculture product | Consumer price (BDT per kg) | Price decrease (%) | Mark up difference (%)b | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-COVID-19 | Post-COVID-19 | ||||
| Shrimp and prawn a | |||||
| Macrobrachium rosenbergii (62) | 899±105 | 654±68 | 26.9 | +9.00 | ↑ |
| Peneaus monodon (62) | 932±65 | 748±81 | 19.8 | +31.5 | ↑ |
| Metapenaeus monoceros (46) | 509±68 | 483±61 | 4.53 | +9.82 | ↑ |
| Metapenaeus brevicornis (31) | 506±56 | 488±65 | 3.55 | +10.1 | ↑ |
| Mean | 759+214 | 619±132 | 16.0 | +15.1 | ↑ |
| Finfish – salt water | |||||
| Lates calcarifer (37) | 562±80 | 519±73 | 7.66 | +29.4 | ↓ |
| Mystus vittatus (29) | 395±60 | 343±52 | 12.8 | +15.3 | ↑ |
| Labeo boga (28) | 425±35 | 405±31 | 4.40 | -2.21 | ↓ |
| Mugil cephalus (24) | 388±51 | 313±54 | 19.3 | +3.02 | ↑ |
| Scatophagus argus (13) | 258±28 | 233±18 | 9.19 | -12.3 | ↓ |
| Pomadasys hasta (9) | 248±18 | 232±17 | 6.40 | -8.06 | ↓ |
| Mean | 422±115 | 380±111 | 10.1 | +4.19 | ↑ |
| Finfish – freshwater | |||||
| Labeo rohita (62) | 251±37 | 237±37 | 4.04 | +35.7 | ↑ |
| Catla catla (62) | 233±30 | 217±28 | 4.62 | +32.3 | ↑ |
| Cyprinus carpio (43) | 157±26 | 135±22 | 13.9 | +15.2 | ↑ |
| Ctenopharyngodon idella (26) | 222±69 | 200±54 | 7.52 | +24.8 | ↑ |
| Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (14) | 144±15 | 115±9.4 | 7.58 | +33.2 | ↑ |
| Cirrhinus cirrhosis (26) | 185±30 | 158±24 | 5.33 | +18.3 | ↑ |
| Puntius sarana (20) | 120±6.9 | 105±11 | 6.94 | +16.3 | ↑ |
| Oreochromis mossambicus (22) | 103±23 | 94±18 | 6.19 | +56.9 | ↑ |
| Pangasianodon hypophthalmus (5) | 116±5.5 | 110±0 | 4.56 | +6.22 | ↑ |
| Mean | 195±61 | 117±60 | 9.54 | +25.4 | ↑ |
aPenaeus orientalis was removed from analysis due to a lack of farm gate prices
bThe markup is the difference between the consumer price and the mean farm gate price