Japan: Hokkaido Fall Chum Landings Top 20 Million Fish for the First Time in Four Years
The Hokkaido Joint Sea-area Fisheries Adjustment Commission announced on October 17 that the number of fall chum salmon landings up to October 10 was 20,524,243 fish, up 53% from the same period last year, and the value was 47,980.44 million yen ($325.34 million), up 34%. Despite being in the middle of the fishing season, it greatly exceeded last year's record of 16.7 million fish and exceeded 20 million for the first time in four years, reported Minato Shimbun...
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