Przemiany w polskim przemyśle przetwórstwa rybnego
Changes in Polish Fish Processing Industry

Summary/Abstract: Fish processing industry for several years now is considered as one of the fastest developing sectors of food industry in Poland. It also plays an important role in supplying the EU market in processed fish products. However, there is an array of threats for its further functioning that have roots both in external environment (closer and further) and in internal environment. The present problems of national fish processing industry have a very diverse genesis. Among them there is e.g. the problem of supplying in raw materials, which was indicated already before the accession to the EU structures, but there are also new problems connected with e.g. the shortage of labour force or the lack of modern institutional support. The identification of difficulties should be seen not only in short- or long-term perspective. It is also worth to see their importance and mutual relations that can either strengthen or weaken the results of economic activity of single entities or the entire sector. Another important thing is also the separation of episodic and cyclical phenomena, which may disturb correct interpretation of long-term trends in particular. The aim of the paper is the identification of basic problems connected with the functioning of national fish processing companies and an attempt to specify their influence on basic structures of the industry, including the structure of production, employment, market and ultimately the spatial structure.

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