処理水放出「避けては通れない」　宮城県の漁協関係者と面会―西村経産相

　東京電力福島第１原発から出た処理水の海洋放出を巡り、西村康稔経済産業相は２９日、宮城県石巻市で県漁業協同組合の寺沢春彦組合長ら地元漁業関係者と面会した。西村氏は冒頭、海洋放出について「福島第１原発の廃炉、福島の復興のためには避けては通れない」と理解を求めた。
　会談は冒頭を除き、非公開で行われた。寺沢組合長は面会後、報道陣の取材に「われわれは反対という立場は変わらない」と表明。その上で「（アワビやホタテの価格下落など）既に実害が発生している」と指摘し、「いま（被害を）受けている現状をまずはクリアしていただきたい」と政府に対応を求めた。（2023/07/29-18:44）

Japanese industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura on Saturday visited Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, and sought local fishery operators' understanding of the planned release into the sea of treated water from the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
   The planned release of the water from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 plant, the site of the March 2011 triple meltdown, "is inevitable for the decommissioning of the plant and the reconstruction of Fukushima," Nishimura said at the start of a meeting with local fisheries industry representatives, including Haruhiko Terasawa, head of the Miyagi prefectural fisheries cooperative association.
   Miyagi and Fukushima are two of the three northeastern Japan prefectures hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
   "Our stance of opposing (the water release plan) has not changed," Terasawa told reporters after the meeting, which took place behind closed doors except for the opening.
   Noting that the plan has already caused actual damage to local fishers, such as declines in abalone and scallop prices, Terasawa urged the state to "remedy the current situation as the first step."