Ice Fishing on Lake Haruna Canceled for 7th Consecutive Season.

Breaking News "Gunma Prefecture".

By AI of "Isesaki FM".

On the 6th, Takasaki City's Lake Haruna Fisheries Cooperative Association announced that ice fishing for smelt will be canceled this season due to insufficient ice strength. This is the seventh consecutive season that the event has been canceled.

The decision was made with safety in mind, as the entire lake has not frozen over and it is difficult to ensure the strength of the ice in the future. In the past 10 years, it was only possible to do so for about one month in 2018. Meanwhile, Lake Akagi-Oonuma in Maebashi City was reopened on January 13th.