Another group of Fukushima Prefecture fishermen restarted operations on a trial basis Friday for the first time since the nuclear plant disaster began in March 2011. The move by a fisheries cooperative based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki came after the Soma Futaba ...
From Osaka to remote island life
Seeking to reverse the exodus of young people to big cities, fishing industry operators on remote Nishinoshima in the Sea of Japan have waged a long-running campaign with the local town office to attract new talent to the area. The island's fisheries union branch, together ...
Cobia is a sleek and powerful fish that devours flesh and does not apologize for it. Open its belly and anything might pop out — crab, squid, smaller fish, you name it. Recently, three Baltimore researchers — Aaron Watson, Frederic Barrows and Allen Place — ...
With the number of traditional "ama" female divers declining nationwide, their elderly ranks have stepped up efforts to recruit younger divers and promote their products as a formal brand to make the occupation more financially rewarding. The time and effort put into landing their catches ...
At the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, the tiny bodies of Arctic tern chicks have piled up. Over the past few years, biologists have counted thousands that starved to death because the herring their parents feed them have vanished. Puffins are also having trouble ...
If things were this bad in the late 1770s, George Washington's starving Continental Army might never have made it out of Valley Forge. The shad, according to one account, came charging up the Schuylkill River to spawn, and ran headlong into soldiers who leapt into ...
Taiwan fisheries pact frustrates both sides
One would have thought that Taiwanese and Japanese fishermen would have been content after their two governments signed a landmark fisheries pact two months ago, following years of on and off negotiations on fishing near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. This ...
Japan to oppose fishing subsidies ban in TPP trade negotiations
Tokyo plans to oppose a U.S.-proposed ban on fishing subsidies in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks that Japan will join from July, due to the numerous adverse effects it might have on the nation's fishing industry, government sources said Saturday. If the interdiction is implemented ...
Alaska's Bristol Bay mine: Ground zero for the next big environmental fight?
A dispute over a proposed copper and gold mine near Alaska's Bristol Bay may be one of the most important environmental decisions of President Barack Obama's second term — yet few are even aware that the fight is happening. At issue is a proposed mining ...
Research shows that fish and other sea life have been heading toward the Earth's poles for more than three decades.
Taiwan seeks to fish off Senkakus, not pick sides
Amid the rain that falls almost daily during winter in northern Taiwan, the surrounding East China Sea, normally a striking blue, takes on a heavy, gray hue. For the three parties locked in a territorial spat over the Senkaku Islands off this coast — Japan, ...
Japan has agreed in principle to allow expanded fishing by Taiwanese boats in disputed waters of the East China Sea, Taiwan Foreign Minister David Lin said Wednesday. "They are willing to extend the fishing area, which we hope will be clearly drawn in longitude and ...
