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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 ...
Rule violations, bad habits accompany wholesalers on move from Tsukiji to Toyosu
Sources say rule violations that were a problem at the now-closed Tsukiji wholesale market have been reported at its successor site in Toyosu.
'Ocean sentinel': Albatrosses to spy out illegal fishing in Indian Ocean
Fishermen illegally trawling the Indian Ocean might soon find they have more to worry about than the proverbial albatross around their neck — real bad luck might now lurk in the form of one of the birds spying on them from the sky. A scientific ...
Five men and the sea: Huge marlin sinks Philippine fishing boat
Like a modern-day take on "The Old Man and the Sea," five Filipino fishermen were cast adrift for days on a makeshift raft after a huge marlin sank their boat. The men were fishing in the South China Sea when a 6-foot-long (1.8-meter) marlin punctured ...
Poaching brings added problems to fishermen in disaster-hit Tohoku region
In coastal areas in the northeastern prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi, hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, local fishermen are struggling to find countermeasures against poaching. In 2016, four men were arrested after being caught red-handed by local Japan Coast Guard officers ...
Japan should strive to increase the stock of Pacific bluefin tuna to ensure the sustainability of this important marine resource.
How the U.N. should regulate high-seas fishing
Clamping down on fishing far from coastal areas would boost fish stocks nearer land.
New stadium gives recovering Kamaishi hope for future
Takeshi Nagata looks out over the pitch from the back stand of Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium and tugs at the collar of his shirt. He retired from playing rugby six years ago, but his body is still in good shape and his formal clothes ...
