Japan Claims China Exceeded International Management Measures for Mackerel
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Japan reports] - July 18, 2017
The Japan Fisheries and Education Agency (JFREA) based in Yokohama unveiled on July 10 its estimate that Chinese fishing boats had caught 300,000 to 400,000 tons of mackerel on the North Pacific high seas off eastern Hokkaido and Sanriku in Miyagi Prefecture in 2016.
This amount corresponds to more than double 143,000 tons China reported to the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC), an international organization governing management of mackerel in the North Pacific.
The Japanese government's Fisheries Agency expressed concern that the Chinese take could impact the mackerel stock in the Pacific as a whole and ...
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