The tabular format illustrates total fish cost imported to America and the pie charts demonstrates sources of its that the US brought in from China, Canada and others from 1988 to 2000.
Generally, it is conspicuous that total value of fish increased during the given period. In addition, the proportion of sources imported to the US market increasingly balance.
Upon examination of source of fish imported, it is clear that the gap among those countries was reduced. Fish from Canada was initially the most attractive source to the US wth over a half total imported fish was from this country, followed by other countries and China at respectively 27% and 13%. During the remaining period, two contrasing trajectories were observed, the rate of fish imported to the US was more balance. While the proportion of fish from Canada plunged dramatically to the least interesting source, its in China witnessed a significant growth to their zenith at around one third of fish imported to the US. FIsh imported to the US in other countries increased considerably to become the main source with nearly a half of fish imported, despite a slighly decrease eventually.
Regarding to the total value of imported fish to the USA, an upward trend was easily witnessed from nearly 7 billion dollars initial to rougly 11 billion dollars eventually.