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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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The squid is called “Squid Station.” It’s about 13 feet high, 29 feet long, and it cost over $200,000. When Noto, a town on Japan’s central west coast, received a small financial windfall of ...

In late January 2021, the Aquas Aquarium in Shimane prefecture in southern Japan posted a video on Twitter showing a giant squid that was found washed up in the city of Izumo. Giant squid sightings ...

A $230,000 statue is part of an effort to revive tourism in the fishing town of Noto. Critics call it a waste of money as Japan struggles to contain a new outbreak. By Hisako Ueno and Shashank Bengali ...

Last week, a giant squid gave the internet the gift of being caught on footage and shared on social media, providing a rare glimpse into the often mysterious depths of earth's oceans. The sighting ...

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 ...