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Hatcheries are helping Japan’s herring industry rebound. What does that mean for Alaska?

Hatcheries are helping Japan’s herring industry rebound. What does that mean for Alaska?

by Katherine Rose | Oct 1, 2024 | ,

Alaska’s lucrative herring fisheries were born in the 1950s, when Japan’s domestic herring industry all but died out. But Japanese herring are making a comeback now, thanks to a government-sponsored hatchery program that has rebuilt stocks, and most importantly, changed attitudes about hatchery-produced herring in a country that prizes its seafood above just about everything else. In part two of our series "Phantom Fish: The return of Japan’s vanished herring industry," KCAW’s Katherine Rose reports on how hatchery production in western Hokkaido has remade Japan’s herring industry. Read More
In Japan, marketers spawn new strategies to sell herring eggs

In Japan, marketers spawn new strategies to sell herring eggs

by Katherine Rose | Jun 22, 2022 | ,

Herring season wrapped up earlier this spring in Sitka Sound with the largest commercial harvest in the history of the sac roe fishery. Herring management nevertheless continues to be controversial, and – many would argue – weighted heavily toward market demand in Asia. But what exactly is that market? Earlier this year, KCAW spoke with a Japanese anthropologist studying the history of herring in his home country, and how the market is changing along with the tastes and habits of the Japanese themselves. Read More
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