Fisheries Agency

The Fisheries Agency plans to create a catch certificate system for domestically caught sea cucumbers, informed sources have said. Exports of illegally caught sea cucumbers are rampant due to high prices, with some groups making large sums of money from the sea animals, the sources ...

Japan, South Korea and Taiwan agreed Friday to hold a meeting of researchers in Tokyo in September to examine Japanese eel stocks and provide scientific grounds for fishing controls. The trio also agreed to maintain quotas on the annual amount of glass eel to be ...

Russia has lifted its ban on Japanese seafood imports adopted in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Moscow's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance on Friday approved seafood imports from six prefectures in northeastern and eastern Japan — Iwate, Miyagi, Yamagata, Ibaraki, Chiba ...

Tokyo has lodged a protest with Pyongyang after a vessel allegedly threatened a fisheries patrol boat in Japan's exclusive economic zone, government sources said Wednesday. The Fisheries Agency crew said the vessel, believed to be from North Korea, trained a gun on their patrol boat ...

Japan resumed what it calls research whaling in the northwestern Pacific on Thursday as whaling vessels departed a port in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The mission is set to last until late July. Under the annual program, the Fisheries Agency will catch up to 90 sei ...

Japan's so-called research whaling season began Saturday off Kushiro, Hokkaido, to study the impact of minke whales on local fisheries. Eight minke whales were caught on the first day of whaling, which lasts through late October. Up to 51 minkes will be caught during the ...

The fisheries Agency said 90 sei whales and 25 Bryde's whales were caught as planned, during 10 weeks of so-called research whaling in the northwestern Pacific.