After Japan's Contaminated Water Discharge, Sales of Chinese Domestic Seafood Increase by Over 100%

Local media including Zhongxin Jingwei reported on the 26th that sales of domestically produced seafood in China have surged following the ocean discharge of contaminated water from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (referred to as "treated water" by the Japanese government).

According to the report, after Japan began discharging contaminated water, sales of various seafood products such as Chinese marine fish, sea cucumbers, freshwater fish, and crabs on the online shopping platform Pinduoduo increased by more than 100%.

Sales of marine fish like croaker rose by 148%, shrimp and sea cucumber products increased by 130% and 118% respectively, while freshwater crabs such as hairy crabs showed a remarkable sales growth rate of 730%.

On the 24th, a vendor is preparing seafood at a seafood market in Beijing, China.
[Photo by Reuters]

Since the recent end of the fishing moratorium and the start of full-scale fishing, the price of flower crabs in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, which had sharply dropped, saw sales increase by 122% on the 24th when Japan began discharging contaminated water, with prices reaching the highest level since fishing resumed.

With the end of the summer fishing moratorium in the South China Sea and the resumption of fishing, fish prices at the Huiyang seafood wholesale market in Guangdong Province had fallen by about 50% from their peak as of mid-month.

China has strongly criticized Japan's discharge of nuclear power plant contaminated water and has imposed a complete ban on imports of Japanese seafood starting from the 24th, when the discharge began.

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