It first started operating for the group in late 2009 / early 2010 in its campaign against whaling by Japanese fisheries.

Commander Waddle was in charge of the Greeneville, an attack submarine, when it abruptly surfaced beneath a Japanese fisheries training vessel.

Most wild salmon is caught in North American, Japanese and Russian fisheries.

Puget Sound region (San Juan Islands) have Japanese fisheries for over a century.

Taiyo and other Japanese fisheries have also been linked to pirate whaling through subsidiary companies in Taiwan, the Philippines, Spain, South Korea, Chile and Peru.

In 2001, Japanese fisheries official Masayuki Komatsu stated Japan used overseas development aid as a tool to gain influence.

Annual catches reported by Japanese fisheries have steadily declined from 20,000 tons in 1950 to varying between 3,959 and 5,388 tons from 1997 to 2004.

Smooth lanternsharks are often caught as bycatch in eastern Atlantic and Japanese commercial fisheries.

The Japanese fishery saturated at some 70,000 tonnes.

The pitted stingray is caught incidentally by Japanese coastal fisheries, using longlines, gillnets, and set nets, and marketed for human consumption.