Wanna know what country is considered the largest tuna market and producer in the world? Yes, it's Japan. Our Pacific neighbors are surely stocking up various tuna species from fresh, chilled and frozen. The Japanese loves sashimi, no wonder they're loving tuna so much. The tuna produce doesn't only come from Japanese local waters but also from neighboring countries such as Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan and as far as Mexico and Sri Lanka. Australia supplies big-eye, albacore, yellow-fin and southern blue-fin tuna. While
Indonesia and Taiwan supply yellow-fin and big-eye, Mexico for blue-fin and Sri Lanka supplies big-eye and blue fin tuna.
The tuna supply of japan from last year totaled up to 326,041 metric tons. During this same period, Japan on the other hand imported about 290,755 metric tons of both frozen and
fresh tuna for local consumption.
The Japanese tuna market continues to reach the upper limits. The increasing demand for high quality tuna meat prompts the country to import from other countries. But in the same trend, tuna exports are also an all-time high. Japanese
processed tuna are very much in demand in the international market.
