Supermarkets and stores in the city of Soma, Japan, have showcased octopuses and whelks caught off Fukushima on Monday.
This is the first local seafood put on the market since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011.
According to the Japan Times, this seafood was caught last Friday, 50km off Soma’s coast, and a local fisheries cooperative has reported that no radioactive substances were detected.
The two kinds of octopus and one type of whelk on sale were sold by a supermarket in Soma with a discount of 40% off the usual market price.
The aim of the trial sale is to gauge the demand and prices for the three species, which were chosen for their low or no radiation contamination during the monitoring of 163 marine species between April 2011 and this month.
"I was determined to buy (the seafood) today. We must help the local industry. I will eat them as sashimi," said 63-year-old Mitsuru Tokura, who bought two packages of octopus, reports the Japan Times.
