For Japan's fishing industry, recovery could take years

The Japanese eat more fish per capita than residents of any other developed country, but the recent earthquake and tsunami, which left almost 28,000 dead or missing, disproportionately affected Japan's northeastern fishing ports and towns. And now fishermen and consumers are worried about radiation from Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant. "It puts a cloud over the entire fishing industry, and Japan's food culture is suffering as a result," says Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan Campus. "People are spooked."
April 28, 2011 | Business Week