Members of a fisheries conference in Tokyo agreed for the first time to limit saury catches in the North Pacific. The move comes as growing demand for the fish threatens its sustainability.

Fears are being raised that Pacific saury, a seasonal specialty in Japan in autumn, will continue to shrink in size due to climate change that is depriving the fish of their primary food resource.

Only 30,000 tonnes of the popular Pacific saury fish, for instance, was caught in 2020, compared with 229,000 tonnes in 2014. But Takemura and his colleagues have an ambitious new plan to revamp ...

Dwindling hauls have driven up prices of the skinny silver fish. In October last year, a Pacific saury of average size (150 grams) fetched an average 260 yen ($2.37) at retail stores in Tokyo’s ...