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With the country's catch of Pacific flying squid continuing to reach record lows, wholesale prices for the seafood have more than doubled for companies that process it into delicacies such as shiokara and what are normally inexpensive dried squid snacks. Not only has the scarcity ...
Ocean temperatures rising faster than thought in 'delayed response' to global warming: scientists
The world's oceans are rising in temperature faster than previously believed as they absorb most of the world's growing climate-changing emissions, scientists said Thursday. Ocean heat — recorded by thousands of floating robots — has been setting records repeatedly over the last decade, with 2018 ...
Record ¥333.6 million paid for giant tuna at Toyosu market's first New Year's tuna auction
A sushi entrepreneur paid a record ¥333.6 million for a giant tuna Saturday as Tokyo's new Toyosu fish market, which replaced the world-famous Tsukiji late last year, held its first pre-dawn auction of the new year. Bidding stopped at the whopping price of about $3.1 ...
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Climate change creates mutant fugu, a deadly Japanese delicacy
The road, hemmed in on one side by empty warehouses and the other by a concrete seawall, ends abruptly in a desolate parking lot. Men step out of their cars and into the darkness, then slip behind the sliding doors of a warehouse. Inside, ...
Philippines tries to turn the tide on fish losses amid climate change and overfishing
Dried fish for breakfast, fried to a crisp with a splash of spiced vinegar, garlic fried rice and a runny egg yolk, is the kind of breakfast that Filipinos who live abroad crave. The dish, often made with sardines, anchovies or round scad, uses dried ...
Fishing nations fail in bid to cut quotas for depleted bigeye tuna
Dozens of nations on Monday failed to agree on measures to preserve one of the planet's most valuable fish: the bigeye tuna, backbone of a billion dollar business that is severely overfished. Some 50 countries as well as European Union member states wrapped up a ...
Dozens of nations will convene in the coming week to decide the fate of one of the planet's most valuable fish: the bigeye tuna, backbone of a billion-dollar business that is severely overfished. Scientists shocked many in the industry last month when they warned that ...
Snow crab stocks in Sea of Japan seen halving in three years
Snow crab stocks in the Sea of Japan are projected to begin declining from next year and nearly halve from the current level in three years, an estimate by a state-backed institute has shown. This year's fishing season for snow crabs, a winter delicacy in ...
Japan to revise decadesold fishery system in attempt to bring in newcomers
The Cabinet on Tuesday approved bills that would rewrite the country's fishery laws for the first time in about 70 years as it seeks to encourage more people to start fish farming and revive the shrinking industry. Under the envisioned system, prefectural governments will no ...
Japanese towns that thrive on once-abundant squid suffer as numbers decline at alarming rate
Takashi Odajima picked up a cracked and faded photograph and dusted it off with his sleeve. He smiled a little sadly at the image from long ago, back when he was a baby boy. In the photo, he sits on his uncle's lap as his ...
Handful of nations hold fate of world's vanishing wilderness
More than 70 percent of Earth's last untouched wilderness lies in the territories of just five countries, scientists said Wednesday — mostly nations that alarm environmentalists with their lukewarm response to climate change. True wild spaces — land and sea areas mostly unaffected by mankind's ...
