Fishing

For many years Japan has caught more fish than any other country. Just like other great fishing nations they have suffered depletion of coastel and deep-sea fisheries these recent years. From that they have depleted fishing stocks and there is coastel water and international restrictions on deep-sea fishing. Today they are ranked third in the world for fishing. The decline in the fishing fleet has had drastic impact on many fishing communties. Many fishing communties have hit a number of problems. enviromental protesters. They have had enviromental protesters, pollution in inland waters, but the main problem was overfishing. They are being caught to early and they had no time to breed successfully and that declined great numbers of unemployment To make up for their loss they increased aquaculture or fish farming. Fish is a very important part of the Japanese diet, they use 40% of population intake of animal protein far higher than most western countries.

In 1985 they caught 12 million tonnes worth of fish. In 1995 they caught 7.5 million tonnes worth of fish.


Right: Fish market