Test fishing off Fukushima to expand

Fishers in Fukushima Prefecture plan to expand their targets for test fishing from 18 types to 27.

The heads of the prefecture's fishing cooperatives met in Iwaki City on Wednesday.

They started test fishing in June last year, 15 months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident. The activity was later interrupted due to radioactive water leakage at the crippled facility.

At the meeting, the heads approved the inclusion next month of 9 types of fish including flathead flounder, which was the leading catch in the area before March 2011.
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