Yahoo! News, Thu Mar 2, 8:58 AM ET, TOKYO (AFP) ----Japan has netted more of a protected type of tuna than allowed, prompting the world's largest tuna-consuming nation to tighten controls on its fishing industry...
...as much as 99 percent of the world catch circulated in Japan, farm ministry official Shingo Kurohagi said. An investigation found that Japan has already exceeded its limit by 1,500 tons in the fiscal year that ends in March...
...Australia and Japan are often at loggerheads on fishery issues. Australia helped lead opposition to Japanese whalers, who doubled their annual catch in the Antarctic ...
.Japan has also said it has suspicions about Australia as the amount of Southern Bluefin Tuna it exports to Japan allegedly exceeds what it catches. "The fish farmed by Australia become so big to the extent that is impossible biologically, if it is keeping its own limit of tuna catches," Kurohagi said....more...
