Household consumption of seafood here may be surpassed by meat in the near future because strong demand for fish in China and other countries is pushing up prices amid a growing taste for easy-to-cook meat, the government said in a report released Tuesday.
Japan should put the brakes on declining seafood consumption by diversifying its sales networks and expanding catches to stabilize prices, according to the fisheries white paper for fiscal 2006.
There is potential demand for seafood, given that health-conscious consumers tend to prefer fish over meat, the report notes.