An Analysis of the 'World Market' of Snow Crab -Has Japan become a loser?-

加拿大是最大的雪蟹生产国，几乎所有的雪蟹都出口到日本和美国。这几天，出口到中国进行后处理并出口到日本的数量在增加。一方面，对美国的出口增加了，另一方面，对日本的出口，包括现在经由中国的螃蟹出口减少了。然而，这一趋势并不意味着日本已经成为雪蟹“世界市场”的输家。即使在今天，这三个市场的需求也不同，比如最好的雪蟹直接销往日本，好看的螃蟹在美国被限制，肉多的螃蟹被送到中国那里再加工到日本。

Canada is the biggest producer of snow crab, almost of which are export to Japan and US. The export to China for re-processing and exporting to Japan is increasing these days. On one hand export to US has increased, on the other, export to Japan including via China now crab has decreasing. This trend, however, doesn't mean that Japan has become a loser in snow crab's `World Market.' Even today, the demands are different among these three markets, e.g. the best quality of snow crabs are going directly to Japan, nice-looking crabs are for restraints in US and crabs with more meat go to China for re-processing for Japan.