But in the, last quarter of the 20th century with the, successful production of domestic hatcheries, and abundant cheap. Salmon imports from Chile Hokkaido salmon, lost their status as a critical food resource. The island got caught up in a. Salmon glut that was at once regional and global. In the 1990s the price, of Hokkaido 's lower-grade male salmon - fish without. Any roe - plummeted so low that the fish were sometimes left to rot on the docks; it did not even pay to process them. It. Is hard to overstate the sense of crisis that this over-abundance caused in Hokkaido fishing towns: with no buyer who would. Pay more than, rock-bottom prices fishermen had to turn to driving taxies and shoveling winter snow to make ends meet. They. Were shocked at how in the, midst of local plenty they had, become poorer not richer.
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