Japan's agriculture minister said Friday the country would oppose any call by the European Union to add eels to an endangered species list that would limit trade in them.Eel is eaten worldwide but is ...

The decision came amid a surge in foreign visitors. Officials ban fishing practice that gained popularity through social ...

Scientists have speculated that there may be no mature southern bluefin tuna by 2030 if overfishing and poaching aren't addressed.

But the island nation’s voracious appetite for eel and other fish has depleted the ocean’s supplies and raised international outcries to halt Japan’s overfishing.

Japanese sushi maestro Jiro Ono, whose creations were recently enjoyed by U.S. President Barack Obama and are heralded as the best in the world, warned Tuesday of a sea change in ingredients due to… ...

Overfishing of the glass eel is, undoubtedly, the source of the problem. Each year, Japanese people eat more than a hundred thousand tons of eel, which usually amounts to about seventy-five per ...

Junichi Sato is the executive director of Greenpeace Japan. Updated January 11, 2013, 3:52 PM The whaling industry has changed beyond recognition since 1970, when 39,000 whales a year were being ...

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The number of newborns in Japan is decreasing faster than projected, with the number of annual births falling to another record low last year, according to government data released Wednesday.

Overfishing threatens more than Mauritania’s $313 million octopus industry. The common octopus is considered the most intelligent invertebrate. It has 500 million neurons, most of them in its arms.

Koizumi told reporters that the country carefully manages stock levels of the Japanese eel in cooperation with its neighbors.

In 2014, the Japanese eel was listed as endangered, but not critically endangered, by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which cited factors including habitat loss, overfishing ...