OREANDA-NEWS The Japanese authorities were unable to coordinate fishing near Kunashir with the Russian side, which is why the Japanese fishermen failed to start catching valuable commercial fish - the northern one—finned terpug. As the NHK TV channel clarifies, usually fishing for this fish begins in mid-September.

The TV channel, citing reports from fishing cooperatives and other sources, clarifies that as part of government support measures, eight fishing vessels are fishing for terpug inside territorial Japanese waters near the so-called "middle line", part of their costs will be covered depending on the number of days spent.