A Japanese Fisheries Agency panel has approved an expansion of the fiscal 2025 fishing quota for the Japanese common squid by 1,800 tons following bigger-than-expected catches. At its meeting ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO– It isn’t every day that a mystery ...

The fishing port is quiet with almost no catch in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on June 2, 2025, as the fishing season for Japanese flying squid starts. (Mainichi/Kunihiko Misawa) HAKODATE, Hokkaido -- The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (Dec. 29, 2015) — It isn’t every day ...

While unregulated fishing is not necessarily illegal, it presents challenges for fisheries sustainability and resource equity, and has been connected to questionable human rights and labor practices. ...

Video recorded in the summer of 2012, provided by NHK and Discovery Channel, a giant squid takes bait in the deep sea off Chichi island, Japan. -AP As they hauled in their net on the frigid seas of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Scientists and policymakers have voiced growing concerns about the decline of global squid stocks, but little has been done to date to target squid fishing activities that are ...