Tokyo fish wholesale market prices from 2008 to May 2012 Masatoshi FUTAGAWA / CORDUNAP July 13, 2012 Tokyo wholesale fish markets, Tsukiji (main market), Adachi and Ohta, are part of Metropolitan Central Wholesales Market in Tokyo which consist of 11 markets in Tokyo, is the largest fish market in the world. The market deal about fresh, live, frozen, dried, salted, fermented and processed products about fish, shellfish, shrimps, crabs, algae as the market dealt 527.5 thousand MT and 5,591.8 million USD with 470 items in 2011. I will report the price of some major fish in the market from 2008 to May 2012. Tunas Bluefin tuna (BFT) consist of similar two species, Pacific Bluefin tuna (PBFT; Thunnus orientalis ) distribute at Pacific ocean and Northern Bluefin tuna which grow bigger (NBFT; T. thynnus ) at Mediterranean sea and Atlantic ocean. Southern Bluefin tuna (SBT, T. maccoyii ) distributes the southern hemisphere, Yellowfin tuna (YFT, T. albacares ) at tropi...
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