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Monday, June 25, 2012

Fukushima seafood on sale for 1st time since nuke crisis

Fukushima seafood on sale for 1st time since nuke crisis

Zee News -
Tokyo: The first seafood caught off Japan's Fukushima coastline since last year's nuclear disaster went on sale on Monday, but the offerings were limited to octopus and marine snails because of persisting fears about radiation.

Japan sells first Fukushima seafood since nuclear crisis

BBC News -
Seafood caught off the coast of Japan's Fukushima region has been put on sale for the first time since last year's nuclear crisis. The sale was limited to octopus and marine snails, as other species cannot be sold yet because of contamination.


Fukushima radiation kills fishing industry

ABC Online - ‎10 hours ago‎
Fishermen in the Fukushima area, the site of the greatest single radiation contamination of the ocean in history, fear their industry is ruined. While boats still go to sea, their catches are being withheld from sale and instead the fish is sent for ...

Fukushima fish still hard to stomach

ABC Online - ‎13 hours ago‎
By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy. Japanese fishermen are facing a struggle for their livelihoods, as after-effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster continue to resonate. An ABC report shows that many fish caught in the oceans around Fukushima ...

Seafood caught off Fukushima finally goes back on sale

FIS - ‎56 minutes ago‎
Fukushima Prefecture-based octopus and shellfish are finally going on sale at supermarkets in Fukushima this week for the first time since the outbreak of the nuclear disaster in March 2011. The products first passed radioactive tests conducted by the ...

Seafood Caught in Fukushima Back on Sale in Japan

karnnewsradio - ‎1 hour ago‎
Sankei via Getty Images(TOKYO) -- For the first time since last year's nuclear disaster in Japan, people in Fukushima Prefecture are once again getting a taste of seafood caught in their own backyard. Fisherman in Fukushima began selling their catch at ...

Fukushima tests seafood demand in local trial sale

The Japan Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
FUKUSHIMA — Octopus and whelks caught off Fukushima were showcased in a trial sale Monday at supermarkets and other stores in the city of Soma, making it the first local seafood put on the market since the Fukushima nuclear disaster erupted in March ...

First fishing catch since Japan nuclear disaster goes on sale amid radiation ...

Newser -
By YURI KAGEYAMA | AP |  in The first seafood caught off Japan's Fukushima coastline since last year's nuclear disaster went on sale Monday, but the offerings were limited to octopus and marine snails because of persisting fears ...

Fukushima Fish Go on Sale

Newser -
By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff (Newser) – Today you can buy fish caught off Japan's Fukushima coastline for the first time since the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant last year, although you're stuck with octopus or whelk, ...

Fukushima seafood on trial sale, 1st time since nuclear crisis

Deccan Herald -
For the first time since Japan's worst nuclear crisis in March last year, seafood caught off the coast of Fukushima went on trial sale today at supermarkets in northeastern Japan prefecture. At supermarkets and retail stores in Soma city, ...

Fukishima Resumes Seafood Sales

TheFishSite.com -
JAPAN - The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations has decided to resume sales of some types of seafood caught in seas off the prefecture. The Japan Times reports that sales of seafood caught off Fukushima will take ...

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