What is the price of live fish per kilogram/pound in Japan today?
The retail price range for Japan live fish is between US$ 9.85 and US$ 38.44 per kilogram or between US$ 4.47 and US$ 17.43 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of live fish in Japan
The retail price range in Yen for live fish is between JPY 1,360.53 and JPY 5,309.90 per kilogram or between JPY 617.02 and JPY 2,408.12 per pound(lb) in Tokyo and Yokohama.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Japan live fish is between US$ 6.90 and US$ 26.91 per kilogram or between US$ 3.13 and US$ 12.20 per pound(lb).
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Japan Live Fish Export Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The export price per kilogram of Live Fish from Japan over the last five years has seen a steady decline. In 2012, the price was 11.39 US dollars per kg, dropping to 9.74 US dollars per kg in 2013. This trend continued until 2015, when the price reached its lowest point of 7.13 US dollars per kg. Since then, the price has been on the rise, reaching 8.19 US dollars per kg in 2016, 8.72 US dollars per kg in 2017, 9.61 US dollars per kg in 2018, 8.92 US dollars per kg in 2019, and 6.7 US dollars per kg in 2020. In 2021, the price rose again to 8.1 US dollars per kg, and in 2022 it was 8.74 US dollars per kg. Based on this trend, it is predicted that the export price per kilogram of Live Fish from Japan in 2023 will be around 8.37 US dollars per kg, and in 2024 it will be around 8.99 US dollars per kg.Japan Live Fish Import Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The import price per kilogram of Live Fish into Japan has seen a steady decline over the past five years. In 2012, the price was 11.39 US dollars per kg, and by 2021, it had dropped to 8.10 US dollars per kg. The lowest price was recorded in 2020, when the import price was 6.70 US dollars per kg. This was followed by a slight increase in 2021, when the price rose to 8.10 US dollars per kg. In 2022, the price rose again to 8.74 US dollars per kg. Based on this trend, it is likely that the import price per kilogram of Live Fish into Japan will continue to rise in the next two years. We can predict that the import price in 2023 will be around 9.00 US dollars per kg, and in 2024, it will be around 9.50 US dollars per kg.Export values for Japan live fish
The total values in export for live fish in Japan were US$ 29,622, US$ 31,846, US$ 49,281 and US$ 49,327 in US dollar thousand for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 in that order.
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Japan live fish - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The volume of live fish sold by Japan in 2020 was 7,302 metric tons. In 2019 Japan sold 5,531 tonnes of live fish. Through 2019 alone, the market for Japan live fish (fish category) has gone up, flactuating by 7.88 pc compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, live fish's exports increased by 51.49% earning the country US$49.33m for the year 2019. Japan's live fish exports are classified as:
- Live fish (excluding ornamental fish, trout [Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster], eels [Anguilla spp.], carp [Cyprinus carpio, Carassius carassius, Ctenopharyngodon idellus, Hypophthalmichthys spp., Cirrhinus spp., Mylopharyngodon piceus], Atlantic and Pacific bluefin tuna [Thunnus thynnus, Thunnus orientalis] and southern bluefin tuna [Thunnus maccoyii]) (HS code 030199)
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Japan live fish export values
In 2019, Japan sold live fish worth 49.33m USD, an improvement of 0.10% from 2018's total live fish export of 49.281m USD. The yearly growth in value of Japan live fish between 2017 to 2018 was 54.748 percent.
The annual change in the quantity of Japan's live fish exports between 2017 and 2019 was 51.49 per cent in comparison to a variation of 7.88% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Japan live fish ( in '000$ )
Japan brought in 7,107 tonnes of live fish in 2019.