Overview of seafood exports from Russian Far East in December 2011
In December 2011 main trends in development of seafood shipments from the Russian Far East to main markets remained unchanged, thus the year 2011 finished generally successfully for the Russian fishermen (a fly in the ointment was a decline of bottomfish shipments) reports http://www.megafishnet.com/.
Prices for halibut shipments both to Japan and to China seriously increased.
The situation with shipments of frozen crab was much better than in 2010, especially in terms of prices, which was to a great extent encouraged by continuous decline of shipments of live crab to Japan.
Main results of frozen pollock roe shipments to Japan and South Korea and especially frozen salmon roe supplies to Japan were very good, just like the situation with shipments of salmon products from the Russian Far East. More specifically, the Japanese import of frozen sockeye displayed a very serious rise, and the Chinese import of frozen pink salmon and chum salmon was record high and would hardly be outdone in the coming years.
Russian Far East seafood exports in December 2010-2011 (compiled by FISHNET analysts from reported figures)
| Product | Destination country | Shipments volume, metric tons / Average price, JPY or USD per kilo | ||||||
| November 2011 | +/- %% versus November 2011 | December 2011 | +/- %% versus December 2010 | December 2010 | +/- %% versus January-December 2010 | January-December 2011 | ||
| Frozen salmon (mostly pink) | China | -42% | 8,750 MT | +6% | +158% | 97,650 MT | ||
| USD 2.75 CIF | +1% | +3% | USD 2.77 CIF | |||||
| Frozen coho salmon | Japan | 80 MT | -9% | 700 MT | ||||
| JPY 325 (USD 4.15) | -16.5% | -20% | JPY 290 (USD 3.60) | |||||
| Frozen chum salmon | Japan | 80-90 MT | +8% | 3,450 MT | ||||
| JPY 220 (ca. USD 2.80) | -3% | JPY 345 (USD 4.30) | ||||||
| Frozen sockeye | Japan | -16% | 2,710 MT | nearly 20 times up | +15% | 24,200 MT | ||
| JPY 500 (USD 6.45) | -13% | -10% | JPY 520 (ca. USD 6.50) | |||||
| Salted salmon roe and other processed salmon roe | Japan | 0 MT | 4 MT | 4 times down | 6 MT | |||
| -5% | JPY 1,620 (USD 20.30) | |||||||
| Frozen salmon roe | Japan | Nearly 4 times down | 350 MT | More than 3 times up | Nearly 5 times up or +377% | 3,390 MT | ||
| JPY 2,175 (USD 28.05) | +10% | +33% | JPY 1,505 (USD 18.80) | |||||
| Frozen pollock roe | China | 680 MT | +36% | +50% | 4,940 MT | |||
| USD 11.22 | +33% | +20% | USD 9.57 | |||||
| Frozen pollock roe | South Korea | -55% | 43 MT | +2% | +48% | 7,880 MT | ||
| USD 10.64 | +10% | +18.5% | USD 9.44 | |||||
| Frozen pollock roe | Japan | -38% | 100 MT | -53% | -6% | 23,750 MT | ||
| Less than JPY 700 (USD 9.00) | -5% | -4% | JPY 755 (USD 9.45) | |||||
| Salted herring roe | Japan | 5 MT | -14% | A little more than 500 MT | ||||
| JPY 565 (USD 7.30) | -12.5% | JPY 695 (USD 8.70) | ||||||
| Frozen herring | Japan | 0 MT | 300 MT | -20% | 4,330 MT | |||
| JPY 95 | ||||||||
| Frozen herring fillets | Japan | 400 MT | -26.5% | +0.3% | 4,800 MT | |||
| JPY 395 (USD 5.10) | +16% | JPY 345 (more than USD 4.30) | ||||||
| Frozen pollock | Japan | 0.5 MT | 200 MT | -90% | 110 MT | |||
| +10.5% | JPY 150 (USD 1.85) | |||||||
| Frozen cod species | Japan | 50 MT | -88% | -40.5% | 1,370 MT | |||
| JPY 330 (USD 4.20) | +2.5% | +16% | JPY 310 (USD 3.90) | |||||
| Frozen cod species | China | 6,320 MT | +59% | +43% | 86,710 MT | |||
| USD 3.10 | +4% | +26.5% | USD 3.20 | |||||
| Frozen black halibut | China | Practically 0 MT | 150 MT | +11% | 2,830 MT | |||
| +81% | USD 4.70 | |||||||
| Frozen white halibut | China | 40 MT | 0 MT | +117% | 350 MT | |||
| USD 2.00 | +159% | USD 11.22 | ||||||
| Frozen halibut | Japan | -14% | 190 MT | -23% | -18% | 4,500 MT | ||
| +7% | JPY 700 (USD 9.00) | +25% | +15% | JPY 620 | ||||
| Frozen flounder | Japan | 30 MT | 0 MT | 60 MT | -57% | Less than 500 MT | ||
| +6.5% | JPY 215 (USD 2.70) | |||||||
| Frozen flounder | China | 330 MT | -80% | -24% | 12,000 MT | |||
| USD 1.89 | +9% | +35% | USD 1.94 | |||||
| Frozen Atka mackerel | Japan | +30% | 1,710 MT | -38% | -25% | 17,350 MT | ||
| JPY 235 (USD 3.05) | +10% | +12% | JPY 255 | |||||
| Frozen ocean perch | Japan | +10% | 220 MT | -45% | -9% | Less than 5,500 MT | ||
| JPY 470 (USD 6.05) | +41% | +20% | JPY 400 (USD 5.00) | |||||
| Frozen crab meat | Japan | 30 MT | -23.5% | 100 MT | ||||
| -44% | JPY 2,370 (USD 30.55) | -16% | +16.5% | JPY 2,435 (USD 30.45) | ||||
| Frozen crab | China | 390 MT | Nearly 8 times up | +2% | 2,590 MT | |||
| USD 5.40 | +85% | +141% | USD 5.60 | |||||
| Frozen king crab | Japan | -32% | 840 MT | +116% | ||||
| JPY 2,200 (USD 28.35) | +25% | +29% | JPY 2,134 (USD 26.70) | |||||
| Frozen crab, total shipments | USA | -18% | 12,450 MT | |||||
| Frozen king crab | USA | 1,650 MT | +5% | -14.5% | 7,900 MT | |||
| USD 14.90 | -25% | +14% | USD 20.45 | |||||
| Frozen snow crab | USA | 430 MT | +20% | -23.5% | 4,550 MT | |||
| USD 8.70 | +15% | +17% | USD 7.95 | |||||
| Frozen snow crab | Japan | -53% | 680 MT | +16% | +31% | 6,000 MT | ||
| JPY 1,040 (USD 13.40) | -11% | +18% | JPY 1,125 (USD 14.10) | |||||
| Live crab (total shipments including illegal and unreported) | Japan | -26% | 830 MT | -60% | -37% | 11,60 MT | ||
| +11% | JPY 1,070 (ca. USD 13.40 | |||||||
| Live king crab | Japan | -36% | -15% | 2,910 MT | ||||
| JPY 1,155 (USD 14.90) | +3% | +11% | JPY 1,070 (ca.USD 13.40) | |||||
| Live snow crab | Japan | -68% | -40% | 7,600 MT | ||||
| JPY 665 (USD 8.55) | +18.5% (+24%) | +23% | JPY 545 (USD 6.80) | |||||
| Live hairy crab | Japan | -77% | -50% | 1,120 MT | ||||
| +10% | JPY 1,215 (USD 15.65) | +7% | +9% | JPY 900 (USD 11.20) | ||||
| Frozen shrimp | Japan | -24.5% | 670 MT | -23% | -1.5% | 7,800 MT (more than 90% of pink shrimp) | ||
| JPY 1,125 (USD 14.45) | +1% | -14% | JPY 895 (USD 11.20) | |||||
| Frozen squid | China | 800 MT | +500 MT | +37% | 2,650 MT | |||
| USD 0.57 | +27% | +23% | USD 0.65 | |||||
| Live sea urchins | Japan | +28% | 1,110 MT | -10% | = | 9,750 MT | ||
| +25% | JPY 640 (USD 8.20) | +3.5% | -6% | JPY 540 (USD 6.75) | ||||
| Frozen pollock surimi | Japan | 0 MT | 0 MT | +36% | 50 MT | -22.5% | 620 MT | |
| -13% | JPY 215 (USD 2.65) | |||||||