While unregulated fishing is not necessarily illegal, it presents challenges for fisheries sustainability and resource equity, and has been connected to questionable human rights and labor practices. ...

TOKYO (CNN) -- It isn't every day that a mystery from the deep swims into plain sight. But on Christmas Eve, spectators on a pier in Toyama Bay in central Japan were treated to a rare sighting of a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (Dec. 29, 2015) — It isn’t every day ...

Eging for squid in Kagoshima, Japan. This video is part of a travel catch and cook series that showcases the experience of ...

The fishing port is quiet with almost no catch in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on June 2, 2025, as the fishing season for Japanese flying squid starts. (Mainichi/Kunihiko Misawa) HAKODATE, Hokkaido -- The ...

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese Fisheries Agency panel has approved an expansion of the fiscal 2025 fishing quota for the Japanese common squid by 1,800 tons following bigger-than-expected ...

The seaside town of Noto commissioned a gigantic squid statue, which cost around $228,500. The city's government received around $7.3 million in grants to tide them over during the COVID pandemic.

In late January 2021, the Aquas Aquarium in Shimane prefecture in southern Japan posted a video on Twitter showing a giant squid that was found washed up in the city of Izumo. Giant squid sightings ...

A coastal town in Japan has provoked debate after spending nearly $230,000 in federal COVID-19 relief money on a 43-foot statue of a flying squid. Noto, a fishing town where the squid is a delicacy, ...

A $230,000 statue is part of an effort to revive tourism in the fishing town of Noto. Critics call it a waste of money as Japan struggles to contain a new outbreak. By Hisako Ueno and Shashank Bengali ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Scientists and policymakers have voiced growing concerns about the decline of global squid stocks, but little has been done to date to target squid fishing activities that are ...