Taiwan's farmed dragon groupers are allowed to be exported to Japan

After about eight years of bilateral consultations between Taiwan and Japan, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced today (30th) on its official website (https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_39620.html) that Taiwan’s farmed dragon and tabby are allowed to be exported to Japan. .Minister of Agriculture Chen Junji said that in the past, Taiwan’s farmed dragon and tabby were mainly sold to China. With the Japanese market, it is expected to reduce its reliance on the single market. The Ministry of Agriculture will definitely actively promote it in the future. The main species of cultured grouper in Taiwan are dragon tiger grouper, gentian grouper and green grouper, of which farmed dragon tiger grouper accounts for more than 70%. Since the dragon tiger grouper’s parent is wild tiger grouper, some operators tried to sell farmed dragon tiger grouper many years ago. Japan, however, because Japanese food regulations stipulate that wild tiger stripes are coral reef fish and ...