Recent trends in the exports of fishery products from “Trade statistics of Japan”

貿易統計から見た最近の水産物輸出の動向

Recent trends in the exports of fishery products from “Trade statistics of Japan”

Creators Nakazato Yasushi

The per capita consumption volume of fishery products has been decreasing since1990 in Japan. And, the food consumption volume including fish in Japan will be expected to decrease with declining birth rate. Therefore, it is expected fish market volume in Japan will be shrinking. On the other hand, the global fish consumption volume is increasing. Then, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has been promoting to export the products by related industries in Japan as a way to stabilize their managements to widen their market abroad. Looking at recent fishery products export from Japan, both the volume and the value are increasing remarkably. I analyzed the changes about fishery products for food from statistics and showed the characteristics. And I described a trend in world fish utilization to influence Japanese fishery products export. In the results, a increase of the export volume in fish products (H.S.code 03) and a rise of the average price of exports in fish processed products(H. S.code 16.04,16.05) are remarkable, and the each change is occupied by relatively few items. An increase of export in some items is supposed to be influenced by a global trend in fishery products utilization.

[ISSN]0370-9361