(うみ)

sea, ocean

(おんどじょうしょう)

temperature rise

(さかな)

fish

(しゅるい)

kind; type

(かわる)

to change

(にほん)

Japan

(きんかい)

coastal waters; nearby seas

(すいおん)

water temperature

(じょうしょう)

rise; ascent

(とれる)

to be caught/harvested

(おおきい)

big; large

(いれかわる)

to change places; to be replaced

(きた)

north

(ながねん)

many years, long years

(しゅりょく)

mainstay; main force

(さけ)

salmon

(するめいか)

Japanese flying squid

(きろくてき)

record-breaking

(ふりょう)

poor catch (of fish)

(つづく)

to continue

(これまで)

until now / so far

(みなみ)

south

(ぶり)

yellowtail, amberjack

(さわら)

Spanish mackerel

(ほっかいどう)

Hokkaido

(おき)

offshore / open sea

(あみ)

net

(けんきゅうきかん)

research institution

(かいめん)

sea surface

(ひゃくねん)

one hundred years; a century

(せかいへいきん)

global average

(にばい)

twice; double

(あがる)

to rise / to go up

(はいけい)

background

(してき)

pointing out, indication

(ぎょぎょうしゃ)

fisher; person in the fishing industry

(たんなる)

mere; simple

(ぎょしゅ)

fish species

(こうたい)

change of personnel, taking turns

(すむ)

to be finished, to be settled

(ながい)

long

(つかう)

to use

(ぎょぐ)

fishing gear

(ぎょほう)

fishing method

(そのまま)

as it is, unchanged

(つうよう)

to be valid; to work; to pass muster

(かこうば)

processing plant

(りゅうつう)

distribution, circulation

(しくみ)

structure, system, mechanism

(つくりなおす)

to remake; to rebuild

(ひつよう)

necessary / needed

(ぎょきょう)

Fishery cooperative

(みずあげ)

landing of a catch, unloading at port

(ふえる)

to increase; to grow

(じもと)

local / one's hometown

(かこう)

processing, manufacturing

(あたらしい)

new

(とくさんひん)

local specialty product

(うりだす)

to put on sale; to launch

(とりくみ)

efforts, initiatives

(はじめる)

to begin, start

(ようしょく)

aquaculture, fish farming

(きりかえる)

to switch over, to change to

(うごき)

movement; trend

(ひろがる)

to spread

(ただ)

only, just, ordinary

(せつび)

equipment, facilities

(とうし)

investment

(たがく)

large sum (of money)

(ひよう)

expense, cost

(たかい)

expensive; high

(たえる)

to withstand; to endure

(ひんしゅ)

variety; breed; strain

(かいはつ)

development

(じかん)

time

(ようする)

to require; to take (time)

(せんもんか)

expert, specialist

(へんか)

change

(ぜんてい)

premise; assumption

(さんち)

producing region, place of origin

(せんりゃく)

strategy

(たてなおす)

to rebuild; to reorganize

(かかせない)

indispensable; essential

(はなす)

to speak, talk

by means of / through

Expresses the means by which something is achieved — through sport, everyone can live together.

to be in the process of

A written-style expression for a change that is gradually progressing. Here fish that used to be caught are gradually disappearing.

while ~ / on the other hand

Contrasts two situations happening at the same time. 不漁が続く一方 sets the collapse of northern catches against the arrival of southern fish, and 一方で opens the paragraph on aquaculture as the other side of the story.

come to / reach the point where

Indicates a change in state or ability.

is doing, has been doing (ongoing state/action)

Expresses a continuing action or resulting state. Formed with て-form + いる. Can describe an action in progress or a state resulting from a past change.

for ~ / from the perspective of ~

Indicates a point of view or perspective. Used twice here for 'the company' and 'the Vietnamese people'.

come toward (action approaching)

Indicates motion toward the speaker or a location. Here it describes rocks flying toward people.

without doing ...

Negative connective; here 'without enduring it alone, consult right away'.

it is because ~

Gives a reason at the end of a sentence. Used here to explain why gasoline prices dropped (government subsidies).

as / in the role of

Marks the role, capacity, or status in which something is treated. Used here as 特別な史跡として (as a special historic site).

on top of that / in addition

Stacks a second burden onto the first, both pointing the same way. 費用がかかるうえ adds the long development time to the heavy cost of equipment.

potential form (can do)

入れられる is the potential form of 入れる — 'can put (things) in'. It describes what the furniture allows you to do.

each, by every ~

Indicates that something is done for every unit of the noun. Here the recovered material is separated metal by metal.

海の温度上昇で魚の種類が変わる

Rising sea temperatures are changing which fish are caught

日本の近海では、水温の上昇によって獲れる魚の種類が大きく入れ替わりつつあります。

In the waters around Japan, the kinds of fish that can be caught are undergoing a major shift because of rising water temperatures.

北の海で長年主力だったサケやスルメイカは記録的な不漁が続く一方、これまで南の海にいたブリやサワラが北海道の沖でも網にかかるようになりました。

While salmon and Japanese flying squid, long the mainstays of the northern seas, continue to see record-poor catches, yellowtail and Spanish mackerel that used to live in southern waters have come to be caught in nets off Hokkaido as well.

研究機関は、海面の水温がこの百年で世界平均の二倍近く上がったことが背景にあると指摘しています。

Research institutions point out that behind this lies the fact that sea-surface temperatures have risen by nearly twice the global average over the past hundred years.

漁業者にとって、これは単なる魚種の交代では済みません。

For fishers, this is not merely a matter of one fish species replacing another.

長く使ってきた漁具や漁法がそのままでは通用せず、加工場や流通の仕組みも作り直す必要があるからです。

That is because the gear and methods they have used for years no longer work as they are, and processing plants and distribution systems have to be rebuilt as well.

ある漁協では、水揚げが増えたブリを地元で加工し、新しい特産品として売り出す取り組みを始めました。

One fisheries cooperative has started an initiative to process locally the yellowtail whose landings have increased, and to sell it as a new local specialty.

一方で、養殖に切り替える動きも広がっています。

Meanwhile, a move to switch over to aquaculture is also spreading.

ただ、設備の投資には多額の費用がかかるうえ、高い水温に耐えられる品種の開発にも時間を要します。

However, investing in facilities costs a large sum of money, and on top of that, developing breeds that can withstand high water temperatures also takes time.

専門家は「変化を前提に、産地ごとに戦略を立て直すことが欠かせない」と話しています。

An expert says, "It is essential to take change as a given and rebuild strategies region by region."