How the world got hooked on ikejime-caught fish
Japanese ways of doing things have a tendency to gain currency in the West. Whether it’s something fiddly such as kintsugi (repairing broken crockery with resin and gold flakes) or …
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Climate change draws great white sharks north, threatening ecosystem
Santa Cruz, California – There never used to be young great white sharks basking off the busy beaches of central California, but as climate change starts to bite, warmer waters …
Wild black bear at Walt Disney World in Florida captured after search
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags It wasn’t an escapee from the Country Bear Jamboree attraction, but a wild black bear managed to be the star of its own …
China’s imports of Japanese seafood down 68% in August
Beijing – China’s seafood imports from Japan dived 67.6% from a year earlier in August, Chinese customs data showed Monday, as Beijing introduced a total ban on marine products shipped …
Seal Hunters in Quebec seek to change public perception and shed new light on their practice
Grosse-Ile, Quebec – At the helm of his motorboat, with the wind whipping and the waves crashing, Canadian seal hunter and photographer Yoanis Menge scans the horizon. From the port …
Japanese Firms Suffer as China Conducts Comprehensive Seafood Testing
Shanghai – China’s blanket radiation testing on seafood imports from Japan introduced earlier this month is estimated to cause some ¥100 million ($720,000) in damages to five Japanese companies, with …
Wired: Mysterious Disappearance of the Snow Crab
“If we’ve lost the ice, we’ve lost the 2-degree water,” Michael Litzow, shellfish assessment program manager with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told me. “Cold water, it’s their niche—they’re …