Japan's fish catch in 2022 hits record-low

The annual white paper on fisheries said that poor catch is likely to continue in the long term due to rising sea temperatures.

Will Japan now recognize global warming as part of reality? Or just keep using coal based plant like before?

They are trying to give another excuse to hike food prices on fish too

Apart from global warming, overfishing has also been a factor in the decline in catches, while the government is working to strengthen regulations.

And here the truth is told. Overfishing is the main problem and global warming (before it was jellyfish) is a convenient though probably real factor. Having fished out its own waters, Japan has always been ready to fish out others' waters too.

The shelves are more than full, but I guess no one can pay the moon prices, if not for fish too then latest for everything else so you don’t have money left for fish even if it were super cheap. So the problem seems to be that offer and demand (at least having the money to satisfy the demand) don’t fit any longer or currently. Leave the fish in the sea or in the breeding tanks so that they can recover. No one can buy them, whatever high or low amount you catch now. And the temperature or climate argumentation? That’s quite some overdoing as the heavily rising salmon catch number indicates. But I am not an fishery insider, maybe the salmons have now a very convenient climate , but somehow only in their artificial fish tanks, instead of the so-called warmer sea and hotter rivers.

Depopulation and aging, both rapidly accelerating due to excess deaths caused by prior Corona infection and fewer babies being born = reduced caloric demand.

Plus, fishing industry like farming, steadily shrinking due to poor demographics. Thus, Japan needs LESS Fish and there's fewer Fisherman to catch Fish, not rocket science, 'catch' will trend downward for many decades.