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Measures to Combat Mass Oyster Die-Offs: "Underwater Tilling" to Cultivate the Seabed Like a Field Implemented for the First Time; Oyster Shells to Be Scattered on the 9th - Etajima City, Hiroshima
Amidst the major challenge of mass oyster die-offs, a local fisheries cooperative in Etajima City has begun efforts to improve the environment of the seabed. On the 8th, our reporting team boarded a boat and headed to the waters near Onasami Island in Okimi-cho, Etajima City. [Reporter Suzuki] "The fishing boat, which normally uses bottom trawling nets, is heading towards the oyster fishing grounds... and now the fishing gear has entered the sea…
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Amidst the major challenge of mass oyster die-offs, a local fisheries cooperative in Etajima City has begun efforts to improve the environment of the seabed. On the 8th, our reporting team boarded a boat and headed to the waters near Onasami Island in Okimi-cho, Etajima City. [Reporter Suzuki] "The fishing boat, which normally uses bottom trawling nets, is heading towards the oyster fishing grounds... and now the fishing gear has entered the sea…