Yeosu Seafood Safety, City Hall Employees Take Action

Seafood Tasting Event at 3 Cafeterias on the 13th

About 800 Employees Including Jeong Gi-myeong, Mayor of Yeosu, Participate

As seafood consumption has declined due to the discharge of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Yeosu City Hall employees have taken steps to verify the safety of local seafood.

According to Yeosu City in Jeollanam-do on the 14th, on the 13th, a "Fresh Yeosu Seafood Tasting Event" featuring lunch menus made with local seafood was held at the city hall cafeteria in collaboration with the Southwest Sea Fisheries and Aquaculture Cooperative.

[Photo by Yeosu City]

At the event, special dishes made with rockfish, including steamed rockfish, sashimi, and spicy rockfish stew, were served at three cafeterias: the main city hall building, the Gukdong temporary annex, and the Agricultural Technology Center. About 800 people, including Mayor Jeong Gi-myeong and the head and staff of the Southwest Sea Fisheries and Aquaculture Cooperative, participated.

Mayor Jeong Gi-myeong of Yeosu, who attended the tasting event, said, "To minimize the damage to our local fisheries industry, which is struggling due to decreased seafood consumption, the public sector will take the lead in actively participating in seafood consumption. We will also strengthen safety management so that citizens can consume our seafood with confidence."

Earlier, Yeosu City signed a business agreement to promote seafood consumption with the Yeosu Industrial Complex Cooperative Council in August, and plans to continue the local seafood consumption promotion campaign by encouraging the purchase of seafood gift sets for the upcoming Chuseok holiday.

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