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Salmon caught in Russian EEZ on store shelf in northern Japan

Sockeye salmon, caught by Japanese drift netters in Russia's exclusive economic zone, are displayed on a store shelf in Nemuro on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on July 21, 2015. Russia's parliament has approved legislation banning drift-net fishing in the zone, starting next year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sockeye salmon prices soar at auction ahead of Russian ban

A fishmonger in Nemuro, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, lays out the day's catch of sockeye salmon after the season's first auction on July 6, 2015. The store price of sockeye salmon has doubled from the previous year as many believe this will be the last year Japanese fishermen can catch the fish in Russia's exclusive economic zone before Moscow's ban on drift-net fishing in waters off Russia's eastern coast takes effect on Jan. 1, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lake Tazawa survey planned to revive habitat for rare trout species

File photo taken in April 2014 shows a school of "kunimasu," a rare Japanese subspecies of sockeye salmon indigenous to Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, northern Japan, in a tank at an aquarium in Yamanashi Prefecture. The Semboku city office in Akita announced on Sept. 4, 2015, that it will survey the underwater conditions of Lake Tazawa from Oct. 5 in hopes of reviving the habitat for the fish. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo