Fishermen: Actions "unforgivable".

Fishmongers check before an auction instead of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture on Monday, April 4, bluefin tuna.New: Merchants to the largest fish market of the world feel a decrease of 80% in the salesMembers of the Japan fishing association met Wednesday with Tokyo Electric officialsThe Group cites "rage" between fishermen for what he called "irresponsible behaviour" Japanese official said fishermen will get money for pain and suffering due to the nuclear crisis

Tokyo (cnn) - Japanese fishermen took the offensive in their fight against the owner of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant disaster, calling anger actions insulting, incompetent, and "unforgivable" company in the nuclear crisis of long weeks.

Fishing corporate joint National Association, a group of trade for the Japan fishing industry, issued a scathing statement Wednesday a few hours after its members met with officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Companywhich operates the plant of paralysées.

In this document, the Group demanded that the utility and the Japanese Government "offset all parties (who have)"suffered directly or indirectly"by the situation."

"Tokyo Electric has not been able to understand the damage to the plant and the (contaminated) water."That led to this serious situation, the group said in the statement.

"Tokyo Electric and the responsibility of the Government (share) of this situation." "It is unpardonable," the message continued. "All those who are alive and the continuation of life on the sea are feel the irresponsible behaviour of strong rage against (the utility and the Government)".

The members of the fishing group said that they are particularly incensed by the decision made and adopted Monday the dumping of tonnes of radioactive water in the Pacific Ocean. This happened in only a few hours after the group specifically requested is not made - leaving its members feel ignored.

Yoshiaki Saito, who has sold fish 40 years, in Tokyo's Tsukiji market said how angry, it is to the Tokyo Electric of CNN. "If we put poison in the River, we would be stopped," he said. "But TEPCO look like that." "It is unfair."

It is also in anger against what he called the "stupid Government."

Representatives of the associations of fishing Wednesday also blown application Tokyo Electric nuclear power plants were safe and that these incidents will never happen.

An official of the utility company said officials Tokyo Electric offered an apology and is committed to improving the situation. Se this was shortly after they confirmed, Wednesday at the outset, that a leak outside the reactor No. 2, by which water that had levels of radiation to millions of legal time limit, was no longer throwing into the sea.

The fishing industry demanded an end to all leaks of contaminated water into the sea to "prevent the death of the fishing industry."

"We demand that Tokyo Electric and the Government responded to all the problems caused by this scandalous decision (to dump radioactive water to the sea) and highly contaminated rinse water"now in the ocean, the association said in its statement."

Secretary General of the Government of Japan Yukio Edano Wednesday apologized for the manner in which the Government had communicated why the dump of radioactive water from the plant was necessary.

He explained that it contained 1/200, 000ths radiation levels in and around reactor No. 2, one of the six at the nuclear plant and that the authorities have decided to delete the less radioactive liquid to the place in a wastewater treatment facility.

"It was a measure to prevent more serious marine contamination", so the Japanese official said. "But we need to explain better reasoning to the people (affected by it)."

Whatever the level of radiation, Timothy Jorgensen, President of the Security Committee of radiation at Georgetown University Medical Center, explained that this water dumped should quickly dilute saw it is equivalent to dumping five swimming pools one value of water in a Pacific Ocean which has approximately "trillion 300 pools."

Still, the Japanese authorities noted radiation levels higher than normal in some young eels. And in addition to its impact on aquatic life, some fear that the mere possibility of radiation in seafood may deter consumers at home and abroad to eat products that took birth in the waters off the coast of the Japan.

Citing such "rumors", Edano said Tuesday that the authorities will intensify surveillance of radiation in seafood, in part to assure the public that it is safe to whatever gets on the market.

The new standards of the Japanese Government will rely on the application of the Act by the inspectors of health city, not those with prefectures, according to Edano. As with milk and vegetables, some fish may be removed from the restricted list if radiation levels are below the legal limits for three weeks in a row.

As for the fishermen themselves, the Cabinet official said Wednesday that, in addition to a larger package of compensation to be decided later, the Government is considering a payment preventive.

Merchants to the largest fish market in the world, market Tsukiji in Tokyo, told CNN that they have seen an 80% drop in sales.

Similar payments will probably go to the farmers, who have been specifically affected by the nuclear crisis much longer than those of the fishing industry.

First, Japan has imposed restrictions on the sale and distribution of milk and certain vegetables such as spinach, March 20 - more than two weeks before that Edano announced Tuesday that radiation levels would be similarly regulated in seafood.

A scientist, whose Institute will begin to carry out research month next follow-up radiation out of Japan, said that it is likely that such levels in fish will increase for six months - as the contamination gets in the food supply - and then gradually move down in two years or more.

But, as now defined standards, he thinks that people should feel comfortable food of the Japan seafood.

"The current regulation is quite reasonable," said Jin Misono, a researcher for the Tokyo Marine Ecology Research Institute-based. "Then, of course, please eat fish." "It is good to revive the fishing industry."CNN Kyung Lah and Hiroo Saso and Gen Shimada journalists have contributed to this report.

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