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David @ Tokyo

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4/06/2008

 

Whale meat stockpile update - January 2008

Whale stock movements at the start of 2008 were shown to have been relatively subdued when January's "Statistics on Distribution of Frozen Fishery Products" was released last month (PDF, MS Excel), although of note the January 2008 survey specification included a minor change, which I'll detail in a subsequent post.

Here are the basic figures for January:

January 2008 outgoing stock: 410 tonnes

Outgoing stock volume for January 2008 was much lower than in January 2007, although the level of stock available at the same time last year was higher. It seems likely that the lower outgoing volume for the month is in part due to lower level of available supply.

January 2008 incoming stock: 109 tonnes

This was the lowest level of incoming stock for any month since May 2005.

January 2008 end-of-month stockpile: 2,832 tonnes

Those readers paying close attention will recall that the December 2007 release of the statistics put the end-of-month stock volume at 3,371 tonnes, and the fluctuation due to monthly stock movements to 2,832 tonnes results in a 238 tonne discrepancy in the figures. What happened to the 238 tonnes? This is related to the change in the survey specification, which I'll write more about in the next post.

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No graphs for this update. The February 2008 figures will be released next week, so I'll have the latest figures with graphs shortly thereafter.

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