Disaster-hit prefectures see 23% fall in fishing industry workers

Oyster farmers work on Feb. 9, 2016, off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. Miyagi and two other prefectures in Japan's northeast hard-hit by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disasters have seen a 23 percent fall in the membership of fishery cooperatives since the catastrophe, a Kyodo News survey showed March 2, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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