Gaijin serves as civic symbol city of Fujinomiya

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[floatl][/floatl]City, environmental group in spat over 'alien' rainbow trout as civic symbol
Mainichi News - April 25, 2009
The city of Fujinomiya in Shizuoka Prefecture is caught up in a row with an environmental group over using rainbow trout as its official fish.
Fujinomiya hopes to make rainbow trout, native to the coastal area rivers of north-western North America, a centerpiece of the city's tourism marketing. However, the Ecosystem Conservation Society-Japan, or Eco-Japan, has claimed that breeding the foreign trout "poses the risk of a negative influence on the ecosystem"...more...

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"Even the education system teaches that the introduction of alien species (into Japan) must be stopped and that we must exterminate such alien species," Eco-Japan concluded.

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