Shipments of Pacific cod caught off Aomori, 320km north of Fukushima, suspended after high levels of radioactive caesium found in fish there

Aomori ordered to suspend cod shipment after excessive cesium found

TOKYO, Aug. 27, Kyodo

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The government ordered Aomori Prefecture on Monday to suspend shipment of Pacific cod hauled off Hachinohe in the northeastern prefecture as excessive levels of radioactive cesium were detected in them, implementing such a ban for the prefecture for the first time after last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Radioactive cesium exceeding the government’s allowable safety level of 100 becquerels per kilogram was detected twice in the cod hauled off Hachinohe, the government said.

The government limited the shipment suspension to cod hauled off Hachinohe as Pacific cod habitat is not large compared with other migratory fish and those containing the maximum allowable level of cesium were caught in areas close to each other, according to the government….”

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