ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT DELAYS TOKYO FISH MARKET MOVE
May 1st, 2007
BY JULIAN RYALL, in TokyoTHE LONG-AWAITED relocation of Tokyo's Tsukiji fish wholesale market has been put back 12 months after the metropolitan government confirmed that an environmental assessment of the planned new site is required. Some dealers at the present market have complained that the planned new Toyosu Wharf site - which was used by Tokyo Gas Co. until recently - is contaminated with pollutants such as cyanogens and arsenic. In a survey in 2001, Tokyo Gas admitted that benzene on the reclaimed island in Tokyo Bay was 1,500 times the legally permitted ...
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