Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) eats seafood landed by a test fishing operation following the Tokyo Electric Power Company Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident during his inspections at a fishing port in Soma, Fukushima prefecture Photo: AFP
Editors Note:
Seafood safety is a top priority of the Gulf Seafood Institute and the Gulf seafood community. Following Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon spill, the seafood has become some of the most tested in the world.
Japanese seafood caught on the east coast of the island near the Tokyo Electric Power Company Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is facing the same perception problems Gulf seafood has faced in the past.
In an effort to dispel fears over the seafood’s safety, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sampling local seafood caught in the waters off the Fukushima coast.
by Julian Ryall/ The Telegraph
Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, has tucked into a slice of octopus caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant and declared local seafood to be “good and safe.”
Mr Abe visited the town of Soma, 26 miles north of the crippled reactors, at the weekend as part of the government’s efforts to convince domestic consumers and the rest of the world that Japanese seafood and produce can be eaten.
“We will work to wipe out the harmful rumours by giving out accurate information,” he told a group of local residents before savouring the slice of octopus tentacle.
“I want everyone in the country to know they are good and safe,” he declared of the seafood laid out by the local fishery cooperative. Fishermen returned to the sea in late September on a trial basis, with their catches tested for radiation.
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