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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...

I encountered the same misunderstanding about the cost of fish in Japan market many times. Just like the blue fin tuna, a very variable fish that cost about USD120/100g!!!. Wait, wait !. You should know the story behind that the price comes in particular condition such fish is wild one (not cultured), has a premium quality (freshness, color, texture and contents of lipid) and is served at high class Sushi restaurants in the middle of Tokyo . Furthermore, the premium meat comes only less than 10 % from total body weight that calls "Otoro". The average price of blue fin tuna is USD25/Kg or less and culture one is one half of it. Even so still the price is attractive at developing countries what I understand. So, I commented about Japan market and fish price in Tokyo market on 2004 which is converted to USD. Refer file name "-marketing-japan-050419" at above address or crick "Toshi" at side bar. http://groups.google.com/group/toshif 海外で私は日本の市場における魚の値...