The Fisheries Agency set ceilings Tuesday on Japan’s catch of juvenile bluefin tuna by area to help restore the dwindling adult tuna stock in the Pacific Ocean, officials said.
The agency briefed a national meeting of fishermen in Tokyo on the measures and gained their broad consent to the first ceilings of their kind designed to halve the yearly catch to 4,007 tons starting in 2015 from the average in the 2002-2004 seasons.
Of the 4,007 tons, 2,000 tons account for purse seine fishing by large and medium fishing boats and 2,007 tons for coastal fishing mainly by fixed nets.
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