The price would vary according to its quality.
There is a rough data of imported salted jellyfish.
Salted jellyfish is not the last form of jellyfish which consumers buy.
We usually buy dried jellyfish packed by 100-200g or cooked dishes.

The unit of the amount of salted jellyfish is ton and that of money
is 1,000,000 yen.
You can calculate rough price of salted jellyfish.
You can see that chinese jellyfish is expensive.
I think it is because their quality is good or the species is good
for cook.

Country         Jun.95          Jun.94          Jan-Jul 95      Jan-Jul 94
                amount  sales   amount  sales   amount  sales   amount  sales
China           383     243     356     171     1,428   919     1,519   865
Malaysia        106     44      102     50      525     191     398     191
Indonesia       -       -       82      19      350     91      1,394   332
Total           1,022   417     788     319     4,414   1,701   4,200   1,633

The data is from Daily Fishery Economy Newspaer Aug. 10, 1995. p. 3.
Originally from statistics of fishery products import of June 1995, issued
by Ministry of Finance of Japan.


1997 year import
Statistical report of fishery trade 1997 Fisheries Angency

Jellyfish (salted / dry)

Country
                amount  sales	share
               (ton) (yen,milion) (%)
China           1827	2061	39.3
Thailand        4201	1066	20.3
Malaysia	1866	 896	17.1	
Indonesia	2290	 674	12.8
Miamer		1412	 466	 8.9
VietNam		 103	  42	 0.8
Philippine	  67	  19	 0.4
Taiwan		  15	  14	 0.3
India		  26	   8	 0.2
USA		   5	   3	 0.1

Total          11812	5249   100.0	

Jellyfish (fresh / chilled / freezed)

Country
                amount  sales	share
               (ton) (yen,milion) (%)
Thailand          32	  12	57.3
Indonesia	  28	   8	37.6
China              4	   1	 5.1

Total             64	  21   100.0	

Jellyfish (cooked)

Country
                amount  sales	share
               (ton) (yen,milion) (%)
China              5	   3   100.0

Total              5	   3   100.0	


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