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China has been Japan's largest exporter of seafood until now, with scallops being the main export, ranking first among all categories with 48.9 billion yen in 2022. Affected by the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea, China's attitude has become tougher, and the import of aquatic products (including edible aquatic animals) originating in Japan will be completely suspended from August 24, 2023 (inclusive). Affected by this, according to the February aquatic product export statistics released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan on April 2, Japan's scallop exports to China are still zero.
According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, in order to open up processing and distribution channels, the Japan External Trade Organization arranged for 14 Japanese scallop wholesalers and foreign trade companies to go to Mexico, near the United States, in mid-March this year to inspect the scallop hulling processing technology of three local aquatic product processing plants.
Minerva Perez, president of Atenea en el Mar, a local Mexican company, expressed confidence that if the plan is officially launched, it will increase the number of employees and adopt a three-shift operation. The company exports about 40 tonnes of products such as geoduck and abalone per month, and this is the first time they have processed scallops from Japan. The claim that these scallops are considered a high-end ingredient that may circulate in the U.S. market has attracted attention.
March 16th. At a meeting with food buyers in Los Angeles, many of the company's customers tasted Japanese scallops processed in Mexico within 24 hours. Among them, the manager of a U.S. fishery company said, "The taste is impeccable, and I want to build a long-term relationship with Japanese companies."
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Seiichi Yokota, who used to work as a broker at Tokyo's Tsukiji Market, commented, "It is completely qualified for raw consumption." According to the JETRO agency, there are about 5,000 Japanese restaurants in California (2022), the largest in the United States, and more than 1,000 more than in 2010. Scallops are becoming increasingly popular as a sushi ingredient, and the demand for high-quality scallops is also strong.
The world's farmed and captured aquatic products are mainly fish
Global aquatic products include aquatic plants, fish, crustaceans (shrimp, crabs, etc.), molluscs (scallops, abalone, oysters, mussels, etc.), and other species (bullfrogs, jellyfish, etc.).
The world's farmed and captured aquatic products are mainly fish. In aquaculture, fish accounts for more than 40% and aquatic plants account for nearly 30%, making it the second largest category of aquaculture.
The global aquaculture volume of aquatic products is showing an upward trend year by year
According to the data of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the global aquaculture production of aquatic products showed an upward trend year by year from 1959 to 2021, and since 2015, the growth rate of global aquaculture production has stabilized.
From the perspective of aquaculture, marine aquaculture accounts for a relatively large proportion. From 2015 to 2020, the proportion of inland aquaculture and marine aquaculture tended to be stable, at about 44% and 55%, respectively.
Asia accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's aquaculture production
According to FAO, Asia supports almost the entire global aquaculture market. Between 1959 and 2020, aquaculture production in Asia continued to rise, rising from 80 percent to more than 90 percent.
Zhang Yanling, a professor at the Law School of Dalian Maritime University and president of the Huang Bohai Research Institute, said that the Japanese side should dispose of the nuclear-contaminated water in a responsible manner, respond to the concerns of the international community in a serious and serious manner, and prevent the irreversible consequences caused by the discharge into the sea, which is the only way to effectively restore the image of the Japanese government and the Japanese fishing industry.
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