Consumption of scallops in Japanese households
1994
Furubayashi, E. (Hokkaido Univ., Hakodate (Japan). Faculty of Fisheries) | Kurihara, S.
Recently the production of scallops has increased and yield has reached nearly 0.4 million tons. On the other hand, the decline in the price of scallops seems to be a difficult problem for those who product scallops. Although the price is determined by both supply and demand. Until now the study of the demand for scallops has been superficial. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of the consumption of scallops in Japanese households. Most of the data used in this paper was obtained from the "Annual Report on the Family Income and Expenditure Survey" by the Statistics Bureau Management of coordination Agency. In this paper we make the following conclusions: 1) Since the price elasticity of scallops in household consumption is relatively great, the decline of the price has caused an expansion of the consumption. 2) Although the quantity of scallops consumed has increased, the difference between districts is still large. The quantities consumed in Hokkaido and Tohoku are larger than those in the other district. 3) The consumption of scallops will increase in the future, because the demand has been expanding in all districts
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