- USA:Total tilapia imports into the US market during the first half of 2016 fell year-on-year by 10 % in volume and 21 % in value compared with the same period last year. Imports totaled about 100 500 tonnes worth US$404 600 million. Although there were increases in imports from Taiwan Province of China and Indonesia, this did not make up the difference.

- Honduras: Honduras remains the largest Central American supplier, though its export value to the USA fell by 19 % during the first half of the year.

-Brazil: The tilapia aquaculture industry is significantly growing in Brazil, where it is currently the second largest aquaculture industry. The sector is growing largely as a result of the efficient feed conversion ratio, which according to EMBRAPA, a Brazilian agricultural research entity, and CAN (the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil), is currently at 1:4. Tilapia demand continues to be strong in the domestic market 

-EU:For the first half of 2016, the market block imported 1 120 tonnes less tilapia from outside the EU, primarily due to lower supplies from China. In total, the EU-27 imported 12 300 tonnes of tilapia, 56 % frozen fillets and 44 percent whole frozen.

-Tanzania: Tilapia, second only to carp as the world's most frequently farmed fish, live in huge numbers in the Great Lakes (Victoria, Tanganyika, Malawi/Nyasa) that cover six % of the country. The lakes are considered a global biodiversity hotspot - one of only 25 worldwide - due to the hundreds of species of cichlid fish, including some of the 30-odd known subspecies of tilapia that are found in Tanzania.