Miyagi Landing bonitos at Kesennuma Port This season's first June 12, 11:55

For the first time this season, a large amount of skipjack was landed at Kesennuma Port in Miyagi Prefecture, which has recorded the highest amount of fresh skipjack landed in Japan for the 23rd consecutive year.

At 6:00 am on the 12th, a skipjack fishing boat from Kochi Prefecture arrived at Kesennuma Port, and 7.8 tons of skipjack was caught on the 10th.

Then, the workers of the fishery cooperative sorted the bonito on the belt conveyor according to size and weight.

The bonito that was landed was taken off the coast of Choshi in Chiba Prefecture, so at the fish market, middlemen gathered and auction was held immediately, the average per kilo was 557 yen, which is 82 yen higher than last year. Was being traded in.

Kesennuma Port was rehabilitated three months after it was heavily damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and has been the number one fresh bonito landing in Japan for the 23rd consecutive year until last year.

The fact is that since the albacore tuna is heavily fished, most of the boats are catching tuna, and it is likely that the bonito fishing will be in full swing after the rainy season.

The fisherman Yasushi Morishita, a boat that landed bonitos, said, “At last, we can start to see a group of bonitos. I think that the number of bonitos will increase.

In addition, a broker in his 70s who participated in the tender said, "Kesennum is a skipjack, so I expect more landings."