It has been halfway this May. It is 2 months until the Midsummer Ox Day this summer, which means it will be a peak of unagi kabayaki consumption. Recently, Japanese the unagi market's consumption is more than its' supply. The persons in Japanese trading company point that there are a lot of query telephone there days. The increasing query telephone shows the intensive demand of Japanese unagi kabayaki market for the Chinese mainland processing eel products to some extent.
The statistics from Ministry of Finance of Japan verified the trend before. March this year, Japanese imported the unagi kabayaki processed production all comes form Chinese mainland, which increases by 54% year- on-year to 2200tons. The volume of import from September 2024 to March 2025 has soared. It forecasts that the volume of import will exceed the same period of 2022 with 9835tons one day.
It is remarkable that this season relevant regions harvest much japonica eel fry, which provides Chinese eel industry with the opportunity of expanding production capacity and optimizing the market layout.