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The Japanese scallop fishing season is over! The price reached an all-time high

foodmate 2023-01-10

As of December 20, 2022, Tokoro, Saroma and Yubetsu, three fishing cooperatives around Lake Saroma in the Okhotsk region of Hokkaido, have ended scallop fishing and ended the fishing season.

 
Preliminary data estimate a scallop catch of 325,100 tonnes, 2% below last year's record high, but remaining above 300,000 tonnes for the fourth consecutive year.
 
Fishing of scallops in Hokkaido's Okhotsk will officially begin in June, and fishing cooperatives will gradually cease operations in November.
 
A fisheries cooperative official said the operation was difficult due to the stormy weather in December. In the end, Tokoro production increased by 2% from the previous year to about 44,000 tons, Saroma reached 10,000 tons, the same level as before, and Yubetsu production fell 5% to below 37,000 tons.
 
During this season, the price of shelled scallops remained high due to higher prices of frozen scallop columns, strong overseas demand, and a weak yen. The average price of scallops per region is around 200 yen ($1.50) per kilogram, and many say the value of processed scallops is at an all-time high, according to a fisheries cooperative official.

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