david@tokyo
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- 11 Nov 2006
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Anyhow, the shippings say nothing about people wanting the meat, it only says, that it has been shipped.
It's well known that whale meat is on sale in many restaurants and supermarkets around Japan, and it goes without saying that much of this comes from frozen storage.
Also, you fail to say, that while rightly the incoming one is lower than before, the outgoing one also has been lower again after 2006.
Yes.
As you can also see, the levels of incoming stock decreased in 2007 as compared to 2006, but far more drastically than the decrease in outgoing stock.
The relation to 2002 is completely irrelevant in this.
Comparisons with 2002 figures were selected because 2002 was 5 years prior to 2007, enabling us to look for a longer term trend than just a single year (which can buck the trend).
now its going down again!
Indeed volumes went down in 2007 versus 2006, but as I noted above, single years can buck the trend. Despite going down slightly in 2007, volumes were still much higher than years other than 2006. I predict that 2008 will again see outgoing volumes exceed 8,000 tons, with shipments in the second half of 2008 likely to be especially high.
(while the stock piles up)
Average stockpile levels have increased recently due to extra supply available in the market. Without this extra supply, the increasing rate of outgoing shipments would not have been possible.
(in fact, the whale stockpile at the end of 2007 was the lowest since 2003)