Product Summary (Registration No.19)

Registration No.19 下関ふく

Registered name (Transcription) : 下関ふく (Shimonoseki Fuku)、Shimonoseki Fuku
Reference information : Shimonoseki Puffer fish

Category of Product

Class 10 Fish (Pufferfish)

Production Area

Shimonoseki City in Yamaguchi Prefecture, and Moji District in Kita‐kyusyu City, Fukuoka Prefecture

Registered Group

Shimonoseki Karato Fish Market Intermediate Wholesaler Cooperative

Characteristics

Shimonoseki Fuku is a Torafugu rubripes (the Japanese puffer) of which poisonous parts are entirely eliminated and maximum freshness is preserved. Production of these high qualities puffers is possible due to highly sophisticated techniques of wholesalers.

Link with the Production Area

The eating tradition of the puffer fish began when Hirobumi Ito, a politician from Yamaguchi Prefecture and Japan’s first Prime Minister, officially permitted the consumption in the Meiji Period. Specialized knowledge and skills of checking and processing puffer fish have been long developed in this area, the main puffer fish market of the country.