2023 Volume 63 Issue 2 Pages 101-105
Distribution of illegally caught or gathered abalone, sea cucumber, and eel fry, and their processed products, which are recognized to be under significant risk of illegal and excessive catching or gathering in Japan, shall be prevented by requiring proper catchers or gatherers of those species to provide a catch number, requiring the catchers or gatherers and all business operators handling those products to inform the catch number among them, to make and keep transaction records, and to attach a legal catch certificate to the product at the time of export.
As well, mackerel, Pacific saury, sardine, and squid and cuttlefish and their processed products shall not be imported into Japan without a catch certificate issued by a foreign government agency and other documents which certify that they were caught or gathered legitimately, and thereby to prevent distribution of fish or fishery products which were originated from catches by illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and contribute to the global efforts to combat IUU fishing.
