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• Marine09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  First Japanese Seafood Shipment to China Since 2023 Leaves Hokkaido

  北海道, 北海道地方, 日本

  

  Starts 11/05/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins86% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 86%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better333 days agoAP via NBC, 7 Nov 2025: Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said '6 metric tons (6.6 tons) of scallops harvested in Hokkaido were shipped to China on Wednesday' - Wednesday 5 November 2025.^[1]

  Six tonnes of Hokkaido scallops were shipped to China, the first Japanese seafood sent there since Beijing's total ban of August 2023, after China reopened to most prefectures.

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• Marine09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  China Partly Lifts Its Ban on Japanese Seafood

  中国海关博物馆, 柳罐胡同, 站东社区, 建国门街道, 首都功能核心区, 东城区, 北京市, 100010, 中国General Administration of Customs

  

  Starts 06/29/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins89% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 89%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.3 years agoFAO^[1]: 'On 29 June 2025 ... the General Administration of China's Customs issued the Announcement on the Conditional Resumption of Aquatic Product Imports from Certain Regions of Japan (GACC Announcement No. 140 of 2025)', effective immediately.

  China resumed imports of Japanese aquatic products from all but ten prefectures, including Fukushima and Tokyo, nearly two years after its total ban, with exporters required to re-register with Chinese customs.

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• Marine09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  China Bans All Seafood Imports From Japan Over Fukushima Water Release

  中国海关博物馆, 柳罐胡同, 站东社区, 建国门街道, 首都功能核心区, 东城区, 北京市, 100010, 中国General Administration of Customs

  

  08/24/2023 - 06/28/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better3.1 years agoChina Daily^[1], 24 Aug 2023: 'The suspension took effect on Thursday, when Japan started releasing contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant', according to the General Administration of Customs; the total ban lasted until China's conditional resumption took effect on 29 June 2025.

  China's customs suspended imports of all aquatic products from Japan on the day Japan began releasing treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant into the Pacific, shutting Japanese fishermen out of their biggest export market.

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