Saury catch limit in Pacific agreed on for 1st time by 8 economies

Japan, China and six other economies of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission agreed for the first time Thursday to set annual catch quotas for saury aimed at addressing fishery resource depletion.The saury catch limit proposed by Tokyo was set at 556,250 tons in 2020 among the eight participating economies, after two previous attempts to introduce the measure had failed to win support.During the three-day gathering in Tokyo through Thursday, Japan initially proposed an annual cap of around 450,000 tons, but apparently made a concession to strike the deal that had previously been blocked b…READ FULL ARTICLE