Figures for 2011 and 2012 exclude Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures due to the effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Data prior to 2019 comes from previous reporting.
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Number of corporate entities engaged in the Japanese fishing industry 2011-2020
In 2020, there were corporate entities engaged in the Japanese fishing sector, the lowest number of the past decade. Within the observed period, the number of corporate entities peaked in 2013 at more than five thousand, but figures steadily decreased in the following years.
The overall number of enterprises operating in the Japanese marine fishery and aquaculture industry, including individual households and corporate entities, dropped to approximately ** thousand in 2019.
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