Cesium Radioactivity in Marine and Freshwater Products and Its Relation to the Restoration of Fisheries in Fukushima: A Decade Review
Cesium Radioactivity in Marine and Freshwater Products and Its Relation to the Restoration of Fisheries in Fukushima: A Decade Review
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海洋和淡水产品中的铯放射性及其与福岛渔业恢复的关系:十年回顾
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10.1007/978-981-16-6799-2_14
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2022
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Toshihiro Wada;Yoshiharu Nemoto;Tsuneo Fujita;Gyo Kawata;Kyoichi Kamiyama;et al.
This review describes cesium radioactivity in marine and freshwater products after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident and explains the relation of that radioactivity to the restoration of marine and freshwater fisheries in Fukushima Prefecture. During the decade following the FDNPP accident, almost all major problems caused by tsunami damage to fishery-related facilities and radioactive contamination of marine products have been settled, although elevated radiocesium (134Cs and137Cs) concentrations over the Japanese regulatory limit of 100 Bq/kg-wet are still observed occasionally in fish collected at the FDNPP port. Monitoring results obtained from intensive inspections by Fukushima Prefecture have played important roles in careful decision-making related to expansion of coastal fisheries operations on a trial basis, so-called “trial fishing,” for which several limitations (e.g., operation areas, operation times, and target species) were imposed. Safety of marine products has been ensured through the voluntary screening system, in addition to the establishment of a no-take zone near the FDNPP by the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Association. Under the new operation scheme started from April 2021, several limitations set under the trial fishing regime will be lifted gradually. Remaining issues related to full-scale fishing will be resolved based on the roadmaps produced by fisheries cooperatives. Reconstruction of human resources and the infrastructure necessary for shipping in association with countermeasures against harmful rumors will be necessary to increase landings by both coastal and offshore fisheries: Those landing amounts in 2020 were, respectively, 17.7% and 55.7% of those recorded in 2010. In inland water environments, radiocesium concentrations of freshwater fish have decreased gradually overall. Limitations constraining fishing activities including recreational fishing have been lifted in western and southeastern parts of Fukushima Prefecture. In contrast, fishing activities have remained limited or suspended in the middle to eastern part of Fukushima Prefecture where persistent radiocesium contamination of freshwater fish has been observed. High levels of radiocesium contamination in freshwater fish because of the continuous radiocesium uptake through the food web have been found in the designated evacuation zone, which monitoring inspections by Fukushima Prefecture have not yet targeted. Production amounts and prices of cultured fish, which are almost free from radiocesium contamination, have not yet recovered. Long-term studies promoting the precise prediction of radiocesium contamination of freshwater fish in natural habitats and countermeasures against reputational damage of cultured fish are necessary to help restore Fukushima’s inland water fisheries in the future.