A fishing cooperative in Fukushima Prefecture on June 14 carried out a fishing operation on a trial basis off the prefecture. The prefecture's fishing industry has suffered greatly from the severe accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

The bottom line was to confirm that fish caught in waters off the prefecture are safe. It is hoped that the trial operation can lead to full-scale fishing operations and the revival of the prefecture's fishing industry.

For one year and three months after the nuclear crisis happened, the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations has refrained from fishing operations and, instead, concentrated on monitoring the concentration of radiation in fish and shellfish off the prefecture.