Global Tuna Supply & Sashimi Tuna

Amount of tunas consumed worldwide
(Conversion based on whole fish)
 　
Changing trends of sashimi tuna supply to Japanese market
　 　 From 1985 through 1995, there was a dramatic increase of tuna product imports. Imports clearly exceeded domestically caught tunas. More than half of the tunas consumed by the Japanese were imports.

Tuna production has been dramatically
increasing in the world.

　
　 　 　
Japan is the world's largest
consumer of tuna

Japan consumes a third of
the global tuna catch, mostly for sashimi use.
　
Supply of Sashimi Tuna (frozen / fresh) in 2000



More than half of sashimi tuna that eaten in Japan has been imported from
foreign countries such as Chinese Taipei, Korea and China.


Number of countries where exports tuna to Japan
1985
33 countries
2002
70 countries

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