Amid ongoing preparations to relocate Tokyo's world-famous Tsukiji fish market, wholesalers and consumers voiced fury Monday over the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's plan to move the market to a new site that has significant soil pollution problems.

Representatives of the wholesalers and workers who process fish at Tsukiji demanded at a news conference that Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe respond to their concerns over pollution and construction problems at the new site in the Toyosu district of Koto Ward.

Last summer, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly decided the market will be moved from its current site in Chuo Ward's Tsukiji neighborhood to the Toyosu area due to a lack of space and sanitary issues.