It’s well known that Japanese consume a lot of fishes each year, even in daily life. As a result, Japanese people are particularly sensitive to the fish prices change. Recently, price of some common fishes rised sharply and shortage problems even occurred. Local media thought Chinese rising seafood demand and over fishing are attributed to that.
According to report released by Diamond Online on 7th September, China is the largest fishery country in the world, whose fish and fishery production account for 18% of the global total. Based on the latest survey carried out by World Bank, Chinese seafood consumption had reached 35% of the whole in the world in 2015, becoming the largest seafood consumption country around the world. It’s estimated that Chinese seafood consumption amount would reach 43% of the global whole by 2030.
In Autumn this year, Japanese saury price has increased by more than two times and shortage problem often occurred. Mackerel, one of the favorite fishes of Japanese young people, has also goes popular among Chinese consumers in recent years, whose supply begins to drop in Japanese market. The reason is that Chinese mackerel fishing boat is almost 3 times more than before.
Local TV reports that they wish China to reduce its fishing boat quantity to control the fishing activities. But they also stated that seafood resources still dropped in Japan even they took relevant measures.
