date:Jan 22, 2013
Chinas thriving Internet commerce scene is becoming an increasingly important distribution channel for domestic seafood sales, in some cases cutting out the middle man and allowing producers ship directly to end users. Thats the case for Xia Xinmin, a 25-year old in Houmen, in southerly Guangong province who opened a shop on the eBay-style Taobao.com, part of the Alibaba group founded by Chinese Internet business icon Jack Ma.
Speaking to SeafoodSource, Xia explains his yellow croaker RMB 38 (