All eight crew members missing after fishing boat capsizes off Hokkaido
All eight crew members of a fishing boat are missing after it capsized 600 kilometers off Hokkaido on Tuesday, the Japan Coast Guard said Wednesday. An overturned vessel found by a search aircraft east of Nemuro on Tuesday was confirmed to be the Keiei Maru ...
First saury catch limit in North Pacific set by eight economies; quotas pending
Japan, China and six other economies of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission agreed for the first time Thursday to set annual catch quotas for saury, aimed at addressing fishery resource depletion. The saury catch limit proposed by Tokyo was set at 556,250 tons for 2020 ...
Pacific economies begin talks in Tokyo on regional saury fishing
Japan and seven other Pacific economies started discussions in Tokyo on Tuesday on saury fishing regulations in the northern Pacific. During the annual meeting of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC), which runs through Thursday, Japan hopes to get all eight member economies to agree ...
Japan to propose introducing cap on saury fishing in northern Pacific
Japan plans to propose introducing an overall cap on Pacific saury catches by all eight member economies of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC), officials have said. The country will put forward the proposal, designed to prevent overfishing in the northern Pacific, at an annual ...
Japan's saury catches this season are expected to remain low for the fourth straight year, sources said on Monday. The downbeat estimate is based on a recent survey by the Fisheries Agency. The expected low number of catches reflects a decline in saury stocks and a ...
Poor catches inflate salmon and saury prices ahead of year-end holidays
Poor catches for salmon and saury in the North Pacific have caused prices to spike across Japan as the year-end shopping season begins. In Hokkaido, which accounts for 70 to 80 percent of the nation's autumn salmon catch, this season's haul fell by more than ...
If Japan wants other countries to observe internationally agreed regulations on the fishing of bluefin tuna, Pacific saury and chub mackerel, it must set an example by following them itself.
Port city Nemuro sets the hook in promoting saury exports to Vietnam
The city of Nemuro, Hokkaido, which boasts the nation's largest saury catches, has been stepping up efforts to export the fish to Vietnam. To expand sales to Southeast Asia, the port city gave a sales pitch to senior Vietnamese officials with the support of the ...
