Aquaculture Business

Enterprises in the business of smart aquaculture, land-based aquaculture, aquaponics, low fish meal feed

The global food situation has become unstable due to increasing population worldwide. For marine products, consumption per capita in Japan is decreasing, but annual consumption per person worldwide has doubled from fifty years ago.
Fish meal, the main ingredient of mixed feed for fish, is overall dependent on import, but the imported price has been soaring due to increased global demand. In such a situation, smart aquaculture that is IoT-used efficient aquaculture, land-based aquaculture using closed-loop system, and low fish meal feed with fish meal reduced, are attracting attention. The research also mentions about the development trend and direction of breeding technology that utilizes genome-editing.
By researching and analyzing the market players of smart aquaculture, land-based aquaculture, low fish meal feed, and seeds and seedlings, this report discloses the market statuses and challenges, while gropes for the future directions.

I   Trend of Fishery and Aquaculture/Fish Farming in Japan

1. General Conditions of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Japan
2. General Conditions of Fisheries and Sea Water Culture in Japan
3. Trend of Global Marine/Aquaculture
4. Transition of Domestic Marine Products Consumed in Volume, and Prices
5. Domestic Attempts of Expanding Fishery Product Exports
6. Efforts to Achieve the Targets for Strategy for Sustainable Food Systems, MIDORI

II Trend of Aquaculture Business

1. "Comprehensive Strategy to Develop Aquaculture as a Growth Industry" by MAFF Promoting Market-Oriented Aquaculture
   1) Background/Situation surrounding fisheries, domestic and global
   2) Key points of "Comprehensive Strategy to Develop Aquaculture as a Growth Industry
2. General Conditions of Ocean Cage Culture
   1) Operation status and cost structure of aquaculture of buri (Japanese amberjack)
   2) Operation status and cost structure of aquaculture of Madai (red sea bream)
   3) Summary
3. Attempts of Advanced Overseas Aquaculture Business
   1) Norway
   2) Chile
   3) Global production volume of salmon and trout
4. Attempts of Domestic Aquaculture Business
   1) Aquaculture business at leading fishery companies
   2) Aquaculture business at leading trading companies
   3) Attempts of domestic salmon business
5. Future Direction of Aquaculture Business in Japan

III    Next-Generation Aquaculture/ Technologies

1. Smart aquaculture
   1) What is "smart aquaculture"?
   2) Background of how smart aquaculture has been demanded
   3) Attempts by the Fisheries Agency to socially implement smart aquaculture
   4) Attempts at enterprises developing smart aquaculture
   5) Challenges/problems in smart aquaculture
   6) Future directions of smart aquaculture
   7) Smart aquaculture market size transition (FY2022 - FY2027 (forecast))
2. Land-based Aquaculture
   1) Forms/Styles of land-based aquaculture
   2) History of land-based aquaculture
   3) Land-based aquaculture registration system (commenced in April 2023 by the Fisheries Agency)
   4) Research on businesses developing land-based aquaculture
   5) Trend of land-based aquaculture overseas
   6) Advantages/Disadvantages of land-based aquaculture
   7) Major attempts by leading companies developing land-based aquaculture
   8) Promising fish species that land-based aquaculture can be applied to
   9) Trend of market players
   10) Challenges and problems in land-based aquaculture
   11) Future direction of land-based aquaculture
   12) Land-based aquaculture plant market size transition (FY2022 - FY2027 (forecast))
3. Aquaponics
   1) What is aquaponics?
   2) Aquatic products or plants that can be produced by aquaponics
   3) Current status of aquaponics in Japan
   4) Efforts by major companies on aquaponics
   5) Overseas aquaponics cases
   6) Views on aquaponics by aquaculture entrants
   7) Challenges and problems in aquaponics
   8) Business trial balance for aquaponics
   9) Aquaponics market size transition (FY2022 - FY2027 (forecast))
4. Low Fish Meal Feed
   1) Feed types for cultured fish
   2) Fish meal production volume transition (2016 - 2022)
   3) Raw material amount for production of fishmeal
   4) Trend of fishmeal in Japan
   5) Trend of fishmeal in South America (Peru, Chile)
   6) Global trend of supply and demand of fishmeal feed
   7) Promotion of use of alternatives to fishmeal and low fishmeal feed in the “Strategy for Sustainable Food Systems, MIDORI” by MAFF
   8) Potential demand for domestically produced fishmeal
   9) Attempts by leading manufacturers producing low fishmeal feed
   10) Trend of alternative ingredients for fishmeal feed
   11) Challenges and future for the use of insects for fishmeal feed
   12) Low fishmeal feed market size transition (FY2022 - FY2027 (forecast))
   13) Insect-protein fishmeal feed market size transition (FY2022 - FY2027 (forecast))

IV    Company Profiles

31 enterprises/organizations