1★50 years of part-time experience.Nov. 10, 2024 (Sun) 12:31:17.48ID:LatPxkcz9
“I was surprised to hear about fishery resources and that Japan is overfishing and can’t catch any more fish.” “I was also surprised that adults make excuses and say that it has nothing to do with the decline in the amount of fish caught.” In the summer of 2024, I met about 30 fifth and sixth graders at an event called “Kushiro-Akeshi Sea Future Research Team! 2024” (part of the Sea and Japan Project promoted by the Nippon Foundation). Eiji Otsuka, president of Coastal Survey Engineering, served as the general lecturer and spoke about fisheries resources in Kushiro and Akkeshi, Hokkaido, with representatives from Hokkaido Broadcasting (HBC), Tokai University, and local residents. In Japan’s seas, the resources and catches of almost every type of fish, including salmon, Japanese flying squid, shishamo, pacific saury, and mackerel, are continuing to decline. The children made the comments mentioned above after learning about the reality of fisheries resources, something that should be familiar to them, and how little they knew about them. The common counterargument is, “Foreign ships, especially China, are to blame.” I think there are many people who think, “That can’t be true!”, “They must have thought it through properly,” or “That’s a biased opinion,” in response to the reality of Japan’s fisheries resource management. These preconceived notions are likely to be prevalent not only in Hokkaido but throughout the country. I believe that this preconception is the root cause of the decline in Japan’s fisheries resources.
>>1 I don’t really get what this article is trying to say
– Japan’s seafood production continues to decline while global seafood production continues to increase Why do they deny that “the world is overfishing”? – It’s true that sea temperatures are rising and that changes are occurring in fish species that can be caught in warmer waters than before Why do they deny that “climate change is the cause”?
40% of the products at Toyosu Market are illegally caught. Local gangsters control fishing cooperatives and run illegal fishing fleets. In Shikoku, police officers join in the illegal fishing of baby eels.
>>11 That’s what I mean. “Quantity management based on scientific evidence is not possible” That’s very Japanese. Not just in the fishing industry, it’s not possible in any industry. It can only be thought of as a matter of guts or personal win or lose.
There’s an initiative in the Seto Inland Sea called “We’ve cleaned the ocean too much, so let’s let’s dump a little poop in the winter,” but there’s no mention of that.
>>18 We’ve made the ocean too clean = We’ve blocked the water seeping out of the soil with concrete and are just letting rainwater flow into the rivers That’s what happens when we shut out the nutrients seeping out of the mountains.
In Hokkaido, the illegal fishing of inland salmon is done by illegal part-timers by organized crime groups, making Japan a paradise for illegal fishermen.
It’s because they give special treatment and protection to whales, which are at the top of the marine ecosystem. They should take whales equally. Also, they’re building banks all the way up the river, destroying the ecosystem. Are they stupid? They tried to force a road along the river and the sea, which is what happened.
Japanese fishermen catch everything when they can, so it’s inevitable that resources will run out. Even when there are years of poor catches and rare years when there is a good catch, they still catch everything. They keep it moderate for the future, with no thought given to ensuring a stable catch in the future.
>>37 If you look at the satellite images at night, you can see that the lights of fishing boats are concentrated along the Japanese EEZ line. Oh, it’s these guys.
They’ve done some embankment construction and cleaned up the drainage, so I think the plankton is decreasing. I haven’t heard anything about red tide in the news.
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