Table 95 - Table 100

Table 95 Japanese imports of frozen shark by country of origin in tonnes

Country	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Spain	74	40	161	229	184	93	345	536	508
Canada	149	576	803	531	102	306	444	837	258
Ecuador	2	12	45	108	99	100	135	97	243
USA	102	292	505	668	530	586	407	383	169
Taiwan Province of China	792	612	547	488	648	266	124	110	149
New Zealand	-	64	216	85	12	161	207	109	104
China	-	-	-	8	37	40	117	133	85
Korea Rep	343	198	237	144	75	91	17	25	47
Panama	33	35	19	31	13	42	49	37	37
Trinidad	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	34
American Samoa	-	-	8	-	18	-	-	-	26
Hong Kong	-	-	-	41	5	29	32	-	21
Kenya	-	-	-	16	11	30	40	25	17
Honduras	17	11	21	16	18	10	6	19	12
New Caledonia	-	-	1	-	4	16	8	12	9
Uruguay	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	4
South Africa	-	1	1	2	-	-	-	-	4
Belize	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2
Gambia	5	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Mexico	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	2
Sri Lanka	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1
Viet Nam	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
Guinea	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-
Chile	71	3	-	-	-	3	3	6	-
Iceland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-
Portugal	-	17	21	4	7	-	4	2	-
Fiji	9	-	38	50	51	58	32	-	-
UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-
Mozambique	24	82	97	34	36	39	5	-	-
Indonesia	26	21	89	65	73	16	3	-	-
Sierra Leone	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-
India	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-
Iran	-	-	-	-	25	3	-	-	-
Singapore	32	50	80	38	3	0	-	-	-
Papua New Guinea	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-
Madagascar	-	5	21	21	31	9	-	-	-
St Vincent	-	4	4	9	18	9	-	-	-
Australia	1	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-
Italy	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-
Peru	3	9	8	2	5	-	-	-	-
Malta	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-
Côte d'Ivoire	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	-
F Ocean	15	42	58	5	-	-	-	-	-
France	-	-	28	-	-	-	-	-	-
Brazil	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Malaysia	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Neth. Antilles	56	31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Venezuela	8	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Others	34	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	1 796	2 134	3 011	2 601	2 019	1 935	2 001	2 346	1 732

Source: Japan Marine Product Importers Association.

Table 96 Japanese imports of frozen shark by country of origin in US$ 1 000

Country	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Spain	505	238	1 179	2 870	2 692	1 928	4 483	6 561	6 867
China	-	-	-	1 046	3 276	2 970	7 718	7 193	5 003
Taiwan Province of China	2 787	2 244	2 277	1 654	1 120	366	202	192	1 617
Ecuador	4	85	242	424	830	620	779	888	1 484
Canada	228	1 026	1 388	969	177	578	808	1 502	411
USA	163	569	907	1 372	1 153	1 283	856	836	354
Panama	52	44	31	57	23	71	133	230	255
Hong Kong	-	-	-	556	409	320	414	-	237
New Zealand	-	104	359	67	27	348	529	235	221
Korea Rep	471	277	383	229	101	121	24	31	74
Kenya	-	-	-	35	13	61	98	39	57
Honduras	25	14	51	22	47	13	59	110	54
Trinidad	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	52
New Caledonia	-	-	2	-	23	80	48	55	38
American Samoa	-	-	10	-	33	-	-	-	33
Mexico	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	13
South Africa	-	2	4	6	-	-	-	-	13
Uruguay	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	7
Gambia	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Belize	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3
Sri Lanka	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2
Viet Nam	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Guinea	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	79	-
Chile	65	4	-	-	-	2	6	12	-
Portugal	-	84	104	25	55	-	17	9	-
Iceland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-
Indonesia	29	24	147	97	141	77	128	-	-
UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	73	-	-
Fidji	11	-	62	75	52	67	29	-	-
Mozambique	32	108	121	42	46	52	8	-	-
Sierra Leone	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-
Australia	8	-	-	-	-	211	-	-	-
Papua New Guinea	-	-	-	-	-	36	-	-	-
Madagascar	-	33	21	25	40	14	-	-	-
St Vincent	-	4	6	17	21	13	-	-	-
Singapore	157	554	1394	403	246	11	-	-	-
Iran	-	-	-	-	32	7	-	-	-
India	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-
Italy	-	-	-	-	45	-	-	-	-
Peru	19	120	96	30	16	-	-	-	-
Malta	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-
Côte d'Ivoire	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-
F Ocean	21	69	87	5	-	-	-	-	-
France	-	-	48	-	-	-	-	-	-
Brazil	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
Malaysia	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Neth. Antilles	88	49	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Venezuela	8	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Others	85	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	4 766	5 678	8 933	10 034	10 636	9 255	16 416	17 982	16 802

Source: Japan Marine Product Importers Association.

Table 97 Japanese exports of frozen shark by country of destination

Country	1995		1996		1997
Country	Tonnes	US$ 1 000	Tonnes	US$ 1 000	Tonnes	US$ 1 000
China	10	17	232	130	429	1 017
Korea Rep.	19	44	91	196	341	371
Peru	-	-	118	52	296	129
Spain	-	-	1	2	166	87
Mauritius	166	585	206	816	106	428
Singapore	43	138	14	105	72	256
USA	13	65	45	286	62	313
Hong Kong	-	-	26	282	45	475
South Africa	3	3	23	30	24	38
Australia	-	-	-	-	22	33
Slovenia	18	64	28	108	2	8
Netherlands	29	113	38	156	1	4
Germany	-	-	12	38	-	0
Italy	67	248	5	20	-	0
Canada	-	-	0	5	-	0
New Zealand	19	64		-	-	-
Denmark	6	23	-	-	-	-
Total	393	1 365	840	2 227	1 566	3 159

Source: Japanese Ministry of Finance.

Table 98 Japanese exports of frozen shark fillets by country of destination

Country	1995		1996		1997
Country	Tonnes	US$ 1 000	Tonnes	US$ 1 000	Tonnes	US$ 1 000
Singapore	770	2 878	183	772	696	3 160
Korea Rep	39	104	57	207	299	911
Mauritius	42	146	28	115	225	953
Germany	44	189	296	1 265	110	483
Italy	124	509	301	1 293	110	492
Hong Kong	-	-	-	-	93	105
China	-	-	-	-	72	52
Netherlands	125	525	270	1 156	22	93
Slovenia	19	84	104	402	20	84
Spain	-	-	-	-	9	18
South Africa	22	38	27	42	6	11
France	9	32	66	268	-	0
Belgium	-	-	44	205	-	0
Brazil	-	-	12	13	-	0
USA	24	86	-	-	-	-
Denmark	16	62	-	-	-	-
Sweden	2	10	-	-	-	-
Total	1 205	4 663	1 387	5 738	1 662	6 363

Source: Japanese Ministry of Finance.

Table 99 Japanese exports of shark fins dried but not smoked, by country of destination in kilograms

Country	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Hong Kong	421 600	388 060	368 560	314 750	283 750	309 590	321 354	280 714	285 864
China	3 300	10 140	4 280	13 560	420	180	10 514	23 421	42 586
Indonesia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7 500	21 020
Singapore	67 370	49 700	62 980	83 760	57 770	79 550	41 990	34 735	17 836
Australia	-	-	-	-	-	-	95	-	1 200
Guam	20	40	110	1 300	850	970	906	629	544
Canada	-	-	-	-	40	200	222	-	210
N. Marianas	-	-	-	130	110	110	127	112	30
Turkey	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	12	12
Thailand	9 680	950	3 640	15 310	13 210	8 450	2 552	1 300	-
Taiwan PC	300	1 000	-	5 440	3 900	-	2 730	-	-
USA	350	540	140	320	340	-	-	-	-
Spain	-	60	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Switzerland	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
New Zealand	-	750	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Korea Rep.	410	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	503 040	451 260	439 710	434 580	360 390	399 040	380 490	348 423	369 302

Source: Japanese Ministry of Finance.

Table 100 Japanese exports of shark fins dried but not smoked, by country of destination in US$ 1 000

Country	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Hong Kong	10 833	8 818	10 219	12 532	11 435	10 624	14 498	10 605	11 936
Singapore	1 457	1 092	1 675	3 300	2 057	2 852	1 655	1 134	615
China	34	136	46	94	4	8	232	263	609
Indonesia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	74	192
Guam	2	6	15	256	49	42	63	68	69
Australia	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	-	33
Canada	-	-	-	-	2	11	14	-	14
Turkey	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	5	4
N. Marianas	-	-	-	7	9	7	10	10	4
Thailand	174	61	187	253	269	153	47	118	-
Taiwan PC	10	36	-	147	165	-	86	-	-
Spain	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Switzerland	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
USA	55	84	23	63	50	-	-	-	-
New Zealand	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Korea Rep.	10	-	-	--	-	-	-	-	-
Total	12 577	10 247	12 164	16 653	14 039	13 697	16 619	12 278	13 478

Source: Japanese Ministry of Finance.