90% of Tohoku's fishing fleet said lost (JAPAN)

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90% of Tohoku's fishing fleet said lost (JAPAN)

Flotsam: Fishing boats swept away by the March 11 tsunami drift in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 10. KYODO

Kyodo

SENDAI — The March 11 tsunami rendered around 90 percent of the 29,000 fishing boats in the three most severely hit prefectures unusable, according to provisional tallies by the three prefectures.

Reviving the fishing industries in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures is indispensable to rebuilding local economies, so the prefectural governments and local fishing cooperatives are mulling a range of steps, including allowing fishermen to operate boats or breed fish and other marine products collectively.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110428a5.html

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