2008 Volume 48 Issue 3 Pages 13-30
Surimi products industry, from olden times in their in region, have been producing traditional sea food such as kamaboko utilizing locally caught as its raw material.
Most of their surimi products are on the market succeeding a commercial brand of the old established producer.
However, coming up to the days of economic high growth, the surimi products industry has faced decrease of locally produced raw material as the result of marked reduction of local fish catch. Today, they can not but depend on the frozen of fish and surimi imported from other countries replacing their traditional row materials, to keep on with their production.
Consumers demand for sea foods is remarkably on the rise recently due to the global increase of population as well as the economic growth of developing countries.
In this context, a food distribution system of local production concurrent with local consumption in a certain area is being reconsidered, from the view point raise self support of food supply.
This study took up some of the typical producing centers of surimi products, and tried to show the status quo of the locally produced row materials in these days.
