Venezuelan fishermen in the south Caribbean keep a nervous eye on the horizon as they ply their trade in the same waters where U.S. forces have recently blown up small, alleged drug boats, occupants and all. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/27/world/venezuelan-fishermen-us-military/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #usmilitary #fishing #venezuela #drugs
A rebound in populations of the fish shows capitalist self-interest and regulation can work together. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/16/japan/sushi-and-tuna-extinction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #tuna #fishing #fish #oceans #food #environment #endangered
A Japanese fishing industry group is seeking to raise the profile of southern bluefin tuna, including by rebranding it as "Antarctic tuna." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/01/japan/antarctic-tuna-rebrand-weighed-bluefin/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #tuna #fishing #fish
The Japan External Trade Organization, or JETRO, struggles to build a new supply chain for Japanese scallops in the United States that involves processing in Mexico. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/japan/jetro-scallop-supply-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #jetro #usjapanrelations #food #fishing
Ika Makimaki
boosted
In 1675, fishermen from what is now called Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, taught a village in present-day Miyagi Prefecture a revolutionary technique to catch bonito. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/japan/japan-kesennuma-bonito-fishing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #miyagi#kesennuma #fish #fishing #wakayama
Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:
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"Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever -- Exploitation of the high seas risks doing irreversible damage to biodiversity, #climate stability and #ocean equity. A consensus must be built now to save them." (Nature Comment, 04 June 2025)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01665-0
#sea #deepsea #mining #fishing
"Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever -- Exploitation of the high seas risks doing irreversible damage to biodiversity, #climate stability and #ocean equity. A consensus must be built now to save them." (Nature Comment, 04 June 2025)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01665-0
#sea #deepsea #mining #fishing
Angela Antunovic
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Meadowbrook Run, PA
Trying not to ruin his new bike 😏
#FlyFishing#Fishing#Nature#Hiking#Walking#Wildlife#Creek#Cycling#Bicycle#MountainBike#Photography
Meadowbrook Run, PA
Trying not to ruin his new bike 😏
#FlyFishing#Fishing#Nature#Hiking#Walking#Wildlife#Creek#Cycling#Bicycle#MountainBike#Photography
An increasing number of companies in Japan are recruiting women for fishery work in an attempt to address the sector's declining workforce. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/japan/women-in-fisheries-sector/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #women039sissues #jobs #fishing
China will allow the import of some seafood products from Japan to resume, a partial lifting of the blanket ban imposed following Tokyo’s release of wastewater from a wrecked nuclear power plant in 2023. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/30/china-seafood-imports-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #seafood #china #fukushimano1 #fish #fishing #trade #chinajapanrelations
