David @ Tokyo
Perspective from Japan on whaling and whale meat, a spot of gourmet news, and monthly updates of whale meat stockpile statistics4/12/2008
Whale meat stockpile update - February 2008
2008 started out quitely in January, and things were much the same again in February.
February 2008 outgoing stock: 466 tons
Slightly up on the January figure of 410, and 82% of the value for the same month in 2007.
With less stock in storage, a proportionally lower outgoing stock was to be expected, and indeed on a proportional basis this level of outgoing stock is in line with expectations based on the February outgoing figure for 2007 and outgoing volume relative to stockpile size.
February 2008 incoming stock: 119 tonnes
Just marginally up on the very low incoming stock level recorded for January, and just 32% of the February value for last year.
February 2008 end-of-month stockpile: 2,485 tons
The total stockpile figure was down 347 from January's month end figure of 2,832 t. This stockpile figure is 84% of that from the same time last year.
February 2008 top stockpile regions
The top seven stockpile regions, their stockpile levels and movement since the previous month are shown in the table below:
| Region | Stockpile size at month end | Stockpile size at previous month end | Movement |
| Ishinomaki | 871 | 951 | -80 |
| Tokyo city wards | 392 | 454 | -62 |
| Kushiro | 258 | 408 | -150 |
| Shimonoseki | 162 | 156 | +6 |
| Yokohama | 139 | 134 | +5 |
| Hakodate | 138 | 158 | -20 |
| Nagasaki | 119 | 126 | -7 |
84% of the total stockpile is held in facilities at these top 7 regions.
Graph: Annual volumes
Graph: Outgoing stock (cumulative)
These are "updated" versions of the new graphs I introduced a few months ago. Last time for December I included all figures available (back to 2001), but as the graphs got too crowded and hard to see the new 2008 values, I've thrown away some of the older data here (2001, 2003, 2004, as there are some issues with the data from those years).
Graph: Incoming stock (cumulative)
Likewise here - data for years 2001, 2003 and 2004 have been thrown out to make this more readable.
Graph: Regional whale meat stockpiles
March 2008 figures are scheduled for release on the 9th of May.
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