Japan

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Urchinomics, a Norwegian sea urchin ranching operation has been formally endorsed by the United Nations as an Ocean Decade action, one of only three commercial ventures worldwide to be selected

21st March 2022

Pioneering urchin farming

21st March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Bergen, Norway-based Proximar Seafood AS, which plans to build a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility producing Atlantic salmon in Oyama town at the foot of Mt Fuji in Japan, has signed a…

8th March 2022

Proximar installation deal

8th March 2022

NEWS

NEWS

The annual New Year tuna auction in Tokyo, Japan, saw the first bluefin of 2022 sold for just under JPY 16.9 million (US$ 145,996).

7th January 2022

Tokyo’s first bluefin tuna sale of 2022 fetches modest $146k

7th January 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Japan’s fish consumption is declining, species like tuna are disappearing, fishing activity is going down and young people aren’t keen to enter the fishing industry.

18th May 2016

Japan taking steps to improve seafood sustainability

18th May 2016