Chris Loew

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), approved increases to the total allowable catch (TAC) of bluefin and bigeye at its annual meeting, which ended Tuesday, 23 November.

ICCAT is the regional fisheries management organization (RFMO) responsible for conservation of tunas and tuna-like species in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas, including the Mediterranean. ICCAT fishery managers agreed to raise the

Japan is aiming to increase exports of yellowtail – the country’s largest finfish export by value – but the efforts to increase exports are coinciding with tightening competition from new aquaculture ventures abroad.

In 2019, yellowtail made up 9 percent of Japan’s fish and fishery product exports - third by value behind scallops and pearls. Primarily, Japan's yellowtail exports consist of frozen fillets, with a

Product from the second sea bream farming operation in Japan certified to the Aquaculture Stewardship Council standard will be on sale in Aeon stores, mainly in the Tokyo metropolis, from 19 to 22 November.

The supermarket chain has been a leader in Japan in featuring sustainable seafood and has plans to increase its certified seafood offerings from 15 percent to 20 percent of all its seafood products. As part of the company’s

Hotel and hospitality chain Hilton has signed a memorandum of understanding that will see it purchase more Marine Stewardship Council- and Aquaculture Stewardship Council-certified sustainable seafood.

Hilton Vice President of Operations for Japan, South Korea, and Micronesia Timothy Soper; Seafood Legacy CEO Wakao Hanaoka; and UMITO Partners’ Shunji Murakami, signed the MoU at a ceremony at Hilton Tokyo Bay on 27 October. The MoU will

Among the exhibitors at the 23rd Japan International Seafood and Technology Expo, taking place at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center from 8 to 10 November, will be a number of pioneering shrimp-farming recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), including Tokyo, Japan-based International Mariculture Technology Engineering (IMTE), the developer of a proprietary "Indoor Shrimp Production System.”

The ISPS system in place at its pilot

Pumice, spewed into the ocean from a distant underwater volcano has clogged the cooling water intakes of ships and killed farmed fish around the Japanese island of Okinawa. The drifting stones earlier reached southern Kyushu, and have now been spotted farther north, off Shikoku.

On 1 November, Japan's Coast Guard announced its planes had spotted pumice stones at two locations near Shikoku Island’s Kochi Prefecture: 146 kilometers off Cape

Cold-water fish that have been the mainstay for fishers and processors in Japan’s northeast are becoming increasingly scarce as sea-water temperatures in the region rise.

The Pacific coast of Hokkaido and the Sanriku coast – which includes parts of Aomori, Iwate, and Miyagi prefectures – have been affected the worse by rising seawater temperatures, which are keeping schools of cold-water fish further off the coast.

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