Farmed seafood is slowly gaining preeminence in the Japanese retail sector, driven by the changing preferences of the country’s national supermarket chains.
Japanese marine aquaculture production volume in 2015 was 1.06 million metric tons, up eight percent from 2014. (The total is still lower than it was in 2013, when aquaculture production was 1.11 million metric tons). Aquaculture accounted for 22.8 percent of total Japanese fish and shellfish production, with wild-caught making up the remainder, according to the Statistical Handbook of Japan 2016, published by the Statistics Bureau…
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