Japanese Tuna Fishery Company Calls for Import Restrictions on IUU Farmed Tuna
At the 10th Tokyo Sustainable Seafood Summit (TSSS), hosted by Seafood Legacy and Nikkei ESG, held in Tokyo on October 8-10 to realize a sustainable fisheries industry, attention was focused on the embargo measures to cut off the source of income for IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fisheries. Sotaro Usui, president of Usufuku Honten based in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, which operates a deep-sea tuna fishery, called on multiple ministries and agencies to work together to prevent IUU fishery product imports...
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