A bear-sized bluefin tuna has been sold at a Tokyo market for ¥207 million ($1.3 million), boasting enough fishy flesh to ...

Strict quotas and regulations now govern their capture to prevent overfishing. Japan, which consumes nearly 80% of the global bluefin supply, has been a major advocate for sustainable practices to ...

In 2017, Japan was among the tuna-fishing nations to reach a historic agreement imposing strict quotas on fishing of the species, after overfishing caused its population to dwindle to less than 3 ...

In the category of life below water, serious pollution and overfishing were cited as factors behind the lowest assessment. The report also said Japan’s measures to protect endangered species ...

Overfishing, poaching and climate change were ... plants under the Washington Convention and in other forums. After the Japanese eel was given endangered listing in 2014, four nations and regions ...