[Rebuttal Report] Regarding <"It’ll be hard to eat sashimi for a while: 30,000 mass deaths in the boiling sea... fish farms in distress [On the Scene]">

On August 2, this outlet published an article titled “It’ll be hard to eat sashimi for a while: 30,000 mass deaths in the boiling sea... fish farms in distress [On the Scene].” The article reported that, unlike the livestock industry—which has a comprehensive national compensation system—the fisheries sector lacks sufficient national support in the event of natural disasters such as high sea temperatures. Furthermore, it highlighted a structurally discriminatory system where the only available relief measure, disaster insurance, results in policyholders being excluded from receiving emergency disaster relief funds.

In response, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries stated, "National support for damages from natural disasters in both the livestock and fisheries industries is provided under the same legislation and in the same way. In the fisheries sector, there are support systems in place such as comprehensive countermeasures for high water temperatures, distribution of response equipment, support for culling in the event of infectious diseases, and disaster insurance payments without upper limits, which are different from disaster relief funds."

The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries also added, "Compensation for deaths caused by natural disasters like high water temperatures and compensation for livestock culling caused by infectious diseases are separate systems, each based on different legal grounds and of different nature; therefore, they cannot be simply compared."

This article is the result of mediation by the Press Arbitration Commission.

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