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Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages by robocat on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:08PM (#22713951)
> China would've been eating 30-32% of world's food by value, while producing 20% of it by itself

References? And of course, that is by value... I’m in NZ and it’s been in the news about how our our crayfish (lobster in US) exports to China crashed, but that’s a high value food. China imports a lot of “unnecessary” luxury foods from NZ (deer, fruit, salmon, mussels, etc), although I don’t know anything about volumes of staples like wheat.

Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages by boznz on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:26PM (#22714441)
One of my clients in NZ sells mussels to US and China and has had to close down production as you dont need them for your restaurants anymore. No other food issues here I can see our local supermarket was well stocked and quiet, though I am out in a rural area
Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages by robocat on Saturday March 28, 2020 @07:36PM (#22715145)
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22711661

I have only heard of kiwifruit going unharvested. We’ll all soon know (if product has no coolstores, and assuming farm to supermarket delay is about a week).

Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages by vonmoltke on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:16PM (#22714008)
> crayfish (lobster in US)

Crayfish is crawfish in the US, not lobster

Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages by xxgreg on Saturday March 28, 2020 @07:04PM (#22714971)
NZ Crayfish are called Rock Lobster in the US.

http://www.leefishusa.com/products/lobster/spiny

Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages by soperj on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:35PM (#22714125)
Crayfish in NZ is the size of lobster in the US.
Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages by mycall on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:13PM (#22714375)
Now I wonder how big their lobsters are.
Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages by pvaldes on Saturday March 28, 2020 @06:59PM (#22714952)
[EDITED. I was talking of the wrong species]

There are some giant crayfishes in Australia. Much bigger than the standard old world crayfishes. Some (Cherax) can be raised in captivity and are very similar to lobsters in size and color, except that they are non marine.

Closing sea ports should not to be a problem for those species at short term (as long as there are reserves of crayfish food remaining of course).

Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages by throwanem on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:20PM (#22714416)
Technically, they're langoustine.
Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages by robocat on Saturday March 28, 2020 @06:59PM (#22714949)
Literally, they are kōura. Technically, they are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasus_edwardsii

Edit: the dictionary says langoustine are another species, although one of the joys of English is making it mean what you want!