Land: Japan

The transformation of the world’s seafood markets to a sustainable basis by the fisheries, processors and retailers engaged in the MSC certification programme is the subject of the latest film in Alvin Hall’s series about social entrepreneurs.

Japan will remain neutral in the matter of banning the international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna.

Japan has decided to propose a new whaling agreement to carry on its whaling business on its waters.

Russian border patrol has opened fire on two Japanese fishing vessels which may have intentionally trespassed into Russian waters.

Antiwhaling activist group Sea Shepherd said yesterday that the Japanese

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.