Kamaboko manufacturing industry - Kamaboko manufacturing industry

...Alaska pollock, a representative fish species that is caught in large quantities, has seen a dramatic increase in production (Alaska pollock and mackerel since the mid-1960s, sardines since 1976) due to the development of revolutionary paste processing technology, mackerel through the development of green cutting and canning processing, and sardines through linkage with the fish oil and fertilizer manufacturing industries, resulting in an astonishing annual production of 1 to 3 million tons. This shows nothing less than the establishment of a factory-like production system that organically combines mass fishing with mass production and processing (the sardine catch has dropped sharply since the 1990s, and as a result, the fertilizer feed and oils and fats that use it as the main raw material have also dropped significantly). The dramatic expansion of mass production and processing has contributed to the development of the marine product processing industry, just as Alaska pollock paste has provided a large amount of inexpensive paste product raw material, encouraging the development of the kamaboko manufacturing industry. However, the fragility of mass production processing, which is based on the premise of the "infiniteness" of raw material resources, was fully demonstrated by the economic turmoil in the seafood processing industries of Tohoku and Hokkaido that occurred in 1976-77 when the United States and the Soviet Union declared exclusive economic zones for fishing within 200 nautical miles of each other.

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…多獲魚の代表的魚種であるスケトウダラが画期的なすり身技術の開発によって，サバが青切りや缶詰加工の展開によって，イワシ(マイワシ)が魚油，飼肥料製造業と連動することによって，それまでの生産量を激増させ(スケトウダラ，サバは1960年代半ば以降，マイワシは76年以降)，年間100万～300万tの驚異的な生産をあげているが，それは大量漁獲と量産加工との有機的な結合による工場的生産体制の確立があったことを示すものにほかならない(1990年代に入りマイワシの漁獲が激減し，このためこれを主な原料とする肥飼料，油脂は大幅に減少している)。量産加工の飛躍的伸長は，スケトウダラすり身が大量安価の練製品原料を供給して，かまぼこ製造業の発展をうながしているように，水産加工業の発展に寄与している。しかし，原料資源の〈無限性〉を前提に成立している大量生産型加工がいかにもろいものであるかは，米ソが200カイリ漁業専管水域を宣言したことに起因する76‐77年の200カイリショックに見舞われた東北，北海道の水産加工業の経済的混乱によって余すところなく証明された。…

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