First seafood caught off Fukushima since Japan nuclear disaster sold

He said he hoped crabs would be next to go on sale as radiation had not been
detected in them, but he acknowledged things will take time, perhaps years,
especially for other kinds of fish. Radiation amounts have been decreasing,
but caesium lasts years.

The octopus and snail were selling at almost half of what they fetched before
the disaster, he said. But he said people were buying Fukushima seafood to
show support for local fishermen. The items were available locally but not
in the whole prefecture or the Tokyo area.

Nobuyuki Yagi, a University of Tokyo professor studying the fisheries industry
after the disaster, said serious concerns remain over whether anyone would
buy Fukushima fish, and the key lay in finding the types of fish that don’t
store radioactive elements.

“Fishing cannot survive unless people buy the fish. That may seem
obvious, but Fukushima is facing up to this,” he said in a statement
earlier this month.

Farmlands have also been contaminated, and every grain of rice will be tested
at harvest in some areas before they can be sold. The image of Fukushima
produce has been seriously tarnished, and worried consumers, especially
those with children, are shunning Fukushima-grown food.

“We are in for the long haul,” Konno said in a telephone interview.

Source: AP

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