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H.-J. Ceccaldi et al. (eds.), Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-ecosystems,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13878-7_1, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Abstract
In the 1960s, oyster culture in France was greatly perturbated by a mass
mortality of cupped oyster caused by infection by the protozoan Marteilia
sp. But oyster culture could be resumed by the timely help of export of
spat from the port of Sanriku, northern Japan. After examination and
identifi cation of the pathogens, a large number of single-seed oysters were
exported to France in the 1970s (Koganezawa 1984; Goto 2012).
On 11 March 2011, a huge tsunami surged against the coast of Sanriku
and ravaged the fi sheries and aquaculture installations included those for
oyster culture.
After the disaster, with the solidarity to return assistance given in the
past, the organizations of France decided to help reconstruct and reactivate
the marine productivity in the coast of Sanriku. From several French
cooperatives of oyster growers, equipment for oyster culture was sent to
a Japanese cooperative, and from several research organizations, the
contribution was sent to Japanese producers.
Independently to this contribution, in the framework of the long-term
exchanges between the two “Sociétés franco-japonaises d’Océanographie”
of France and of Japan, some scientifi cal and technological equipments
such as microscopes and plankton nets were donated to Japanese research
centers and fi shery cooperatives.
Y. Koike (*)
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology,
Conseillor of S.F.J.O. (*) of Japan , 17-16, Minami-3,
Koenji , Suginami-ku 166-0003 , Tokyo , Japan
e-mail: oreillemer@ybb.ne.jp
An Example of Friendship and
Cooperation Between France and
Japan: Oyster Farming in Sanriku
Area (Tohoku Region, Northern
Japan) Before and After Tsunami
– Restoration and Technical
Adaptation of Culture Systems
Yasuyuki Koike
H.-J. Ceccaldi et al. (eds.), Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-ecosystems,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13878-7_1, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Abstract
In the 1960s, oyster culture in France was greatly perturbated by a mass
mortality of cupped oyster caused by infection by the protozoan Marteilia
sp. But oyster culture could be resumed by the timely help of export of
spat from the port of Sanriku, northern Japan. After examination and
identifi cation of the pathogens, a large number of single-seed oysters were
exported to France in the 1970s (Koganezawa 1984; Goto 2012).
On 11 March 2011, a huge tsunami surged against the coast of Sanriku
and ravaged the fi sheries and aquaculture installations included those for
oyster culture.
After the disaster, with the solidarity to return assistance given in the
past, the organizations of France decided to help reconstruct and reactivate
the marine productivity in the coast of Sanriku. From several French
cooperatives of oyster growers, equipment for oyster culture was sent to
a Japanese cooperative, and from several research organizations, the
contribution was sent to Japanese producers.
Independently to this contribution, in the framework of the long-term
exchanges between the two “Sociétés franco-japonaises d’Océanographie”
of France and of Japan, some scientifi cal and technological equipments
such as microscopes and plankton nets were donated to Japanese research
centers and fi shery cooperatives.
Y. Koike (*)
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology,
Conseillor of S.F.J.O. (*) of Japan , 17-16, Minami-3,
Koenji , Suginami-ku 166-0003 , Tokyo , Japan
e-mail: oreillemer@ybb.ne.jp
An Example of Friendship and
Cooperation Between France and
Japan: Oyster Farming in Sanriku
Area (Tohoku Region, Northern
Japan) Before and After Tsunami
– Restoration and Technical
Adaptation of Culture Systems
Yasuyuki Koike