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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...

The strategy of f infish culture founding in Chile Masatoshi FUTAGAWA CORDUNAP February 28, 2012 Chile is trading country, concluded a treaty (FTA, EPA, TPP etc.) with 58 counties and exports primary industry materials such as copper ore, fruits and salmon etc. Economic situation of the country grows well and it join OECD in 2010. Salmons and trout exportation grew to 500 thousand ton (2.3 billion USD) in 2007 but there was an outbreak of virus (ISAV) and reduced to less than one half. Also, coastal fish resources decreased much due to overfishing and affect coastal life which is happening all over the world. Thus, it needs alternatives culture species of salmons to minimize risk and recover resource of coastal fish to improve coastal life. The keywords are “Sustainability”, “Minimum contamination” and “Less energy consumption”. I will write what are the needs and how to fish culture founding according to those key words. 1.     Conditions ...