S. Korea Bans Sand Eeel from Fukushima, Japan?

When I was first exposed to a news reported by South Korean Yonhap News Agency as saying that South Korea has banned sand eel from Fukushima, Japan on Wednesday because of high levels of radioactive contaminants found in the fish, I wondered why South Korea has to make "a big fuss" about it.

Then, I checked into this wonder and found several reasons to substantiate that South Korea has been making such a big fuss as based on "nothing".

1. No fishing operations have been carried out since all fishing ports in Fukushima Prefecture suffered serious damages from Tsunami on March 11. Nobody knows when to resume fishing operations.

2. As far as I checked with Fisheries Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries site on internet, no sand eel has ever been exported to any country at all

3. This fish is found along the coasts of Japan (except Okinawa Islands) and the Korean peninsula. I believe the similar kind is found almost everywhere.

According to media in Japan, sand eel is a kind of fish that swim in huge shoals usually near the surface of the ocean, therefore, having greater chance of being exposed to radioactive materials contained in water discharged from Fukushima Daiichi. This is the only kind of marine life so far found to be contaminated with radioactive materials exceeding the provisional limits, suggesting that the contaminated water discharged from Fukushima Daiichi has never been well diluted with sea water.

As described above, it is so obvious that there is no way S. Korea will have sand eel imported from Fukushima, Japan. I really wonder why it had to officially announce that it had banned import of sand eel on Wednesday as soon as the Government of Japan decided to ban fishing sand eel.

I must say that South Korea has been trying to show it to the world that it has been victimized by Japan, in an effort to fabricate a story of being damaged by nuclear fallout and discharged water contaminated with radioactive materials.

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