## Results of radioactive materials monitoring for fishery products (including freshwater)

Major marine products for which none of the samples exceeded the standard limit in radioactive materials monitoring (as of the end of May 2013)

Seaweeds	All species
Shellfish	All species excluding Stimpson's hard clam
Squids and octopuses	All species
Shrimps, prawns, and crabs	All species
Epipelagic fish	Sardines, saury, juvenile sand lance, juvenile anchovy (whitebait), barracudas, flying fish
Mesopelagic fish	Mackerels, billfishes, skipjacks, tunas, coho salmon, chum salmon, yellowtail, mako shark, blue shark, greater amberjack, gizzard shad, Spanish mackerel, mahi mahi (dorado), capelin, crimson sea bream, yellowtail amberjack
Demersal fish	Black-throat seaperch, horse mackerels, bigeyed greeneye, Japanese parrotfish, forked hake, black scraper, alfonsino, thornyhead, tiger puffer, herring, spiny goby, balloonfish, Rikuzen flounder
Mammals	Whales

## Marine products under distribution restriction (not distributed) in Fukushima Prefecture and neighboring prefectures (as of the end of May 2013)

Fish species	Panther puffer	Olive flounder	Stone flounder Ocellate spotalate Rockfish Nibe croaker Pacific cod	Japanese black porgy	Sea bass	Notes: 1) The "x" mark in the table denotes a area and species under a distribution restriction directive. 2) Sea area south of the due east line from the land area border between Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures 3) Sea area of Miyagi Prefecture south of Kinkasan Island 4) In the sea area of Fukushima Prefecture, a distribution restriction directive has been imposed for 32 species of marine products other than the nine species indicated in this table. 5) Sea area of Ibaraki Prefecture north of latitude 36° 38' N
Part of Iwate Prefecture (note 2)	×	×
Miyagi Prefecture	Southern part (note 3)	×	×	×
Fukushima Prefecture (note 4)	×	×	×	×	×
Ibaraki Prefecture	Northern part (note 5)	×	×	×

## (3) Status of efforts toward securing consumer confidence

- The national government, the relevant prefectures, and relevant fishery industry/cooperatives have worked together to ensure that fishery products containing radioactive cesium exceeding the standard limit are not distributed to the market, and that the food safety for fishery products that reach consumers has been secured.

- In order to allow consumers to purchase fishery products in Japan without anxiety, it is important that the national government, the relevant local governments, fishery industry/cooperatives to cooperate with each other to continue to implement radioactive materials monitoring for fishery products and to publicize the monitoring results in a way that consumers find easy to understand.

- Due to the growing consumer’s interest in the waters where fishery products are caught, the Fisheries Agency has established the sections of the waters in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of East Japan and recommended to use them when indicating areas where fishery products were caught on food label.

- To respond to other countries’ tightened import regulations on Japanese foods that include fishery products, the Japanese government has provided information on its radioactive materials monitoring results and safety measures to foreign governments, and has requested that they reconsider their own excessively strict import restrictions for agricultural, forestry, and fisheries products and foods, of which safety has been scientifically verified. As a result, a part of the restrictions for exporting fishery products to the EU has been lifted, and export to Egypt has resumed.