Major fishing ports in the hardest-hit three prefectures from the 11 March disaster saw a 60 percent drop in overall hauls in 2011 from the previous year.
The Nikkei compiled the statistics based on data from local governments and the Japan Fisheries Information Service Center. The seven largest fishing ports in the disaster-damaged Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures reported a total of 164,965 tons in fish brought in, which is down 61 percent from the previous year.
