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Japan’s fish exports plummet as China ban bites

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

From the BBC World Service: Japan’s fishing exports plummet 70% after China banned imports over the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima power plant, the BBC’s Mariko Oi reports. The United Kingdom is considering delaying a ban on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars, watering down its green ambitions. Finally, Venice is set to introduce a daily tourist levy in an attempt to reduce the number of day-trippers to the city, the BBC’s Giovanna Girardi reports.

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When a seafood imports from Japan dives after the Fukushima waste water is released.

0:34.7

Hello and you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report live from the BBC World Service.

0:39.3

I'm Leana Bern, very good morning to you.

0:41.7

It's almost a month since Japan began releasing retreated waste water from the Fukushima

0:45.8

nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.

0:48.2

The move was controversial particularly for Japan's fishing industry which opposed

0:52.5

it.

0:53.5

And on the same day China said it would ban all Japanese seafood imports, China's imports

0:58.1

from Japan.

0:59.1

It started to tail off in the summer and now we've got fresh numbers, Chinese imports

1:03.0

of Japanese seafood plummeted by 67% in August and that's a blow because last year those

1:09.2

sales were worth more than half a billion dollars.

1:12.4

Earlier I asked our business reporter, Mariko Oy, who's set to lose out the most.

1:16.5

I think if you're talking about local fishermen, it is a huge hit because China is the biggest

1:22.4

import of Japanese seafood but if you're talking about Japan's economy as a whole, China

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