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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Image recognition technology using artificial intelligence (AI) to discern target and non-target shapes is finding uses in aquaculture and fish processing.
Two such recent applications are the Automated Fish-Counting System developed by Osaka, Japan-based Yanmar Marine Systems Co., Ltd. (YMS) and ImageAnalyzer Ceres-II by Tokyo-based CDEX.
YMS is a member of the Yanmar Group, known for its diesel engines and for applications of the engines in
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Tokyo, Japan-based Seafood Legacy Co., Ltd. announced that on 1 June, its fishery and science departments, which provided consulting to fishery or aquaculture producers, would become independent as UMITO Partners Inc.'s Shunji Murakami – formerly vice president and COO of Seafood Legacy – left those positions on 31 May to become CEO and president of the new Tokyo-based company.
The move represents an unraveling of the February 2019
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Japan’s Fisheries Agency released a report on 28 May showing that seafood production in 2020, including that from aquaculture, declined by 21,000 metric tons (MT), or 0.5 percent, from the previous year to 4.175 million MT ...
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Two new land-based trout aquaculture projects underway in Japan are partnerships between an infrastructure company, a seafood distributor, and a trout hatchery …
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As the size of the Japanese fish-paste product market is limited by the country’s shrinking population, the major manufacturers of such products are looking overseas for growth …
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Large hauls of horse mackerel in Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture in May, combined with low restaurant demand, have led to lower wholesale prices at Tokyo’s Toyosu Market …
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Tokyo, Japan-based seafood conglomerate Nissui released its consolidated financial results for fiscal year 2020 on 13 May, and its related presentation materials on 21 May, indicating the company saw a decline in sales and profit.
The company reported its net sales declined by 4.9 percent, and its operating profit dropped 20.8 percent. Ordinary profit was off by 11.8 percent, and profit attributable to the owners of the parent were fairly stable
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American consumers are familiar with the “Dolphin Safe” label on their tuna cans, and they may soon be seeing “FAD-free” labels, too.
The Blue Marine Foundation, a London-based NGO focused on marine conservation, hosted a free online interactive roundtable on “Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) in Responsible Tuna Fisheries” on Thursday, 6 May.
The foundation is focused on securing marine protected areas,
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Mitsubishi Corporation, the parent company of Norway-based Cermaq, reported on 7 May in its financial results for the year ending on March 2021 that the company saw a drop in revenue in 2020.
The company reported revenues of JPY 12.8 trillion (USD 118.5 billion, EUR 97.4 billion), down nearly 13 percent from last year, mainly due to decreased volumes in its petroleum business. Gross profit fell by 10 percent from 2010, to JPY 1.6 trillion
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A trial at Japan’s Kindai University has shown that Menlo Park, California-based Calysta Inc.’s FeedKind bacterial protein meal (BPM) can replace up to 30 percent of fishmeal protein – or up to 20 percent of total feed – in the diet of yellowtail without any impact on growth rate, digestibility, daily feeding rate, or feed efficiency.
The paper, "Methanotroph (Methylococcus capsulatus, Bath) bacteria meal as an
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