Japan to ban expansion of bluefin tuna farms
News On Japan via Business Line -- Oct 26
Japan will ban the expansion of bluefin tuna farms across the country as part of efforts to prevent overfishing, Fisheries Minister Akira Gunji said today.
Gunji told reporters here that the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries would soon notify prefectural governments of the new policy.
The policy is intended to protect immature tuna from being over-hunted for farming.
In June, the ministry asked prefectural governments not to allow fishing farms to expand their tuna-farming facilities.
But as the request was not honoured in some prefectures, the Ministry has decided to change it to a binding instruction based on the 1949 fishery law, the ministry said.
There were 137 bluefin tuna farms across the country as of the end of 2011, officials said.
郡司農林水産相は、天然クロマグロの「未成魚」が養殖のために乱獲されるのを防ぐため、都道府県知事に対して、漁場やいけすの拡大を禁止するよう漁業法に基づく「大臣指示」を出した。
Source: Business Line, FNNnewsCH
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