Fish from the sea off Fukushima contain radioactive substances at 5 times the allowable limit... Shipment halted

Excessive Cesium Detected in Jopibollak

Members of the Citizens' Radiation Monitoring Center and the Korean Federation for Environmental Movements declared the launch of the "Won't Eat Japanese Seafood" campaign to stop the discharge of Fukushima radioactive contaminated water into the ocean in front of the former Japanese Embassy in Jongno-gu, Seoul, last November.

On the 22nd, Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported that rockfish caught off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, where the nuclear accident occurred in 2011, contained radioactive cesium at levels five times higher than the standard set by the Japanese government.

According to NHK, tests on rockfish caught during fishing operations off the coast of Fukushima on the same day detected 500 becquerels (Bq) of cesium per kilogram.

This amount is five times the food safety limit set by the Japanese government (100 Bq per kilogram) and ten times the self-imposed standard of the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations (50 Bq per kilogram).

NHK reported that this is the first time in two years since February 2019 that seafood caught off the coast of Fukushima has been found to exceed the Japanese government’s radioactive material standards.

The rockfish in question was caught at a fishing ground about 8.8 km from the coast of Shinchi-machi, Fukushima Prefecture, at a depth of 24 meters.

The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations has decided to suspend shipments of rockfish until safety is confirmed.

Fukushima fishermen select some of the caught seafood for testing, and only ship it if the detected radioactive material is 50 Bq or less per kilogram.

Since February last year, restrictions on shipments of all fish species caught off the coast of Fukushima had been lifted.

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