Land: Japan

An international conservation society is using a small, space-age-like vessel

he Japanese Tosakatsuo Suisan Group pole and line skipjack tuna fishery has been awarded the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certificate for sustainable and well-managed fisheries. Following a rigorous 12 months independent assessment, the Tosakatsuo Suisan fishery has become the first skipjack tuna fishery in the world to bear the MSC ecolabel.

Enormous Nomura’s jellyfish have sunk a 10-ton fishing trawler in the waters of Japan.

It is fact that the tuna in northern Japan are disappearing towards the depths of extinction, confirms a report.

Oma in Japan is rightly called tuna town as huge numbers of tuna are found here but now its future is in dark as the population of tuna falls repeatedly.

Bluefin tuna are the most valuable of a whole family of highly migratory, mackerel-family fish.

Japanese auto giant, Mitsubishi is being accused of cornering the market on the endangered species.

At the time of crisis when the fishing stocks decline Japanese firm Mitsubishi hoards frozen bluefin tuna.

As Tokyo’s mighty Tsukiji fish market has slammed the closing hammer on its morning auctions, hot tuna demand faces cold reality.

The growing demand of bluefin tuna for sashimi has bring the species to verge of extinction and Japanese scientists are searching way out.