Japan’s seafood imports fell by 8% year-on-year in January

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　　Imports of seafood fell by 17% in January to US$1.
015 billion, imports of fresh and frozen salmon and trout fell 5% to US$18804 million; imports of fresh and frozen shrimp fell 23% to US$106.
1 million; imports of tuna The amount fell 2% to 118.
5 million U.
S.
dollars.

 

　　Among fresh and frozen salmon and trout, frozen salmon imports increased by 17% to 20,859 tons, fresh and chilled salmon imports decreased by 21% to 1,314 tons, and frozen salmon slices increased by 11% to 5,907 tons.

 

　　Imports of frozen coho salmon increased by 23% to 18,764 tons, and imports fell by 1% to US$88.
1 million.
The average import price was US$4.
69 per kilo, an increase of US$0.
6 month-on-month and a year-on-year decrease of 20%.

 

　　Among fresh and frozen tuna, imports of frozen yellowfin tuna decreased by 28% to 3,003 tons, frozen bigeye tuna decreased by 39% to 2,951 tons, and frozen albacore tuna decreased by 21% to 1,194 tons.

 

　　Affected by the epidemic, Japanese fishing has suffered setbacks and imports have decreased.
The number of frozen bluefin tuna slices from the Mediterranean region is 2,874 tons, twice the amount in the same period in 2020.
Imports of frozen bonito decreased by 48% to 2,604 tons.

 

　　In January, warm-water shrimp imports decreased by 11% to 10,587 tons, and semi-processed shrimp imports decreased by 16% to 4547 tons.
Among them, shrimp products from Indonesia increased by 16% year-on-year to 2042 tons, while shrimp imports from Vietnam and India were respectively Reduced by 3% and 16%, the quantities were 2,075 tons and 2,643 tons, respectively.

 

　　Frozen surimi imports increased by 19% to 14,405 tons, Indian surimi imports tripled to 5,212 tons, Vietnam surimi imports increased by 38% to 1,511 tons, while U.
S.
surimi imports decreased by 5% to 2,532 tons.
China Imports of surimi decreased by 17% to 1,577 tons.