Chris Loew reports from Osaka, Japan as a contributing editor for SeafoodSource.com. In addition to writing for SeafoodSource.com, he covers Japan for
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Japan’s government is creating a fund to assist fishermen in Fukushima and other prefectures whose products are at risk of reputational damage following a planned release of stored cooling water from the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant ...
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Japanese food and beverage conglomerate S. Ishimitsu & Co., Ltd. has committed to sourcing seafood from Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP)-certified farms and processing plants
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Japan’s seafood export strategy is paying off as the world begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, with its seafood exports up 27 percent in the first half of 2021.
Japan Minister of Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Kotaro Nogami reported in an online press conference on 3 August that Japan’s exports of agriculture, forestry, and fishery products and foods increased by 31.6 percent in the first half of 2021 from
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The Sixth Joint Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Northern Committee Working Group Meeting on Pacific Bluefin Tuna Management has partially approved a Japanese proposal to increase the total allowable catch for the species ...
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A virtual climate and fisheries workshop hosted in July by the Environmental Defense Fund had the goal of building bridges between fisheries managers in Japan and the United States.
The seminar organized by the New York City, U.S.A.-based NGO brought together scientists from the National Marine Fisheries Service and Japan’s Fisheries Research and Education Agency to discuss current and future climate-related changes in fisheries, data gaps
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The North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group (NAPA) on 19 July announced its first member company from Asia: the Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU).
NAPA was launched in 2019, in response to the loss of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for several key pelagic stocks. The group was also established to address the trend of countries in the Northeast Atlantic region unilaterally setting quotas higher than is
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Japanese fish-paste makers are getting squeezed, with their raw material costs rising but facing reticence from consumers and company executives alike about raising prices for their products ...
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Japan kicked off the Olympics on 23 July with an opening ceremony in a nearly empty stadium …
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Leif Anderson is the director of sales and services for Kirkland, Washington, U.S.A.-based Dynamic Systems Inc. He spoke with SeafoodSource about the company’s SIMBA traceability and barcode labeling software, its use in the seafood sector, and the trend for industry standards.
SeafoodSource: You have noted increased demand for traceability products from the seafood sector. Is that demand coming from a requirement from the government to be
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