If Russia will impose a ban on drift-net fishing, the Eastern areas of Hokkaido will lose 25 billion yen (about 203 million dollars), said the Japanese administration of the city of Nemuro.
As informs television channel NHK, according to the Ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, the catch of salmon on the Japanese Islands, including other types of fishing network, is 150 thousand Tons, from them on drift-net fishing in its 200-mile exclusive economic area of Russia, we have 6, 4 thousand Tons, reports " Prime ".



Some of the reviewers on the Japanese Islands believe that environmental arguments for the ban are only a pretext, in reality it is retaliatory measures against Russia imposed by Japan on penalties in connection with the situation in Ukraine.

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