Japan says no radioactivity found in Fukushima fish, reports Kyodo

Katsumasa Okawa, owner of Okawa Fish Store, serves a fish dish to a customer at his restaurant in Iwaki, northeastern Japan on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. Fish auction prices at a port south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Friday somehow dipped amid uncertainty about how consumers may respond a day after release to sea of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater began despite protests at home and in neighboring countries. - AP

TOKYO (Reuters): Japan's fisheries agency said on Saturday fish tested in waters around the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant did not contain detectable levels of the radioactive isotope tritium, Kyodo news service reported.

Nets were set up on Thursday when plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) began releasing treated radioactive water into the Pacific, angering fishermen and many others in Japan, alarming consumers in neighbouring countries and prompting China to ban Japanese aquatic products.