Japan Worried: Putin Supports Driftnet Fishing Ban
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Sputnik] July 22, 2015
Moscow has banned driftnet salmon and trout fishing in its exclusive economic zone as it is ecologically destructive both to Russia and Japan.
Catching salmon and trout in the northern seas off Japan may soon become off-limits. Earlier this month Russia’s parliament passed a bill to ban driftnet fishing in the area off the country’s eastern coast, which extends about 370 kilometers from its shores, The Japan Times wrote.
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that driftnet fishing was denuding the salmon and trout population and was ecologically destructive both to Russia and ...
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