As 90% of oysters die off, Japanese government steps in to save seafood industry

Noticeably smaller oysters at Japan's Kure oyster festival unsettled attendees following an unprecedented oyster die-off that ...
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Hiroshima’s oyster farmers are pulling up their rafts to find 90% of their harvest dead — and the cause lies just beneath the surface

In a normal season, mortality rates run between 30% and 50%. This year, according to Japan's fisheries ministry, death rates ...

‘Something out of the ordinary’: why are Japan’s oysters dying en masse?

A death rate of up to 90%, attributed to warming seas, is threatening the trade in Hiroshima prefecture, which produces most of the country’s farmed oysters ...
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Japanese oyster farmers begin recovery after Kamchatka tsunami damage

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