Exchanges between Japan and France in the field of fisheries science, triggered by the mass oyster die-off in France and the export of Sanriku oyster seeds to France

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  • Koike Yasuyuki
    Société franco-japonaise d’Océanographie
  • Komatsu Teruhisa
    Société franco-japonaise d’Océanographie Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association

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  • フランスにおけるカキの大量斃死と三陸産種ガキのフランスへの輸出を契機とした，水産学分野における日仏交流

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In 1960, the Japanese-French Oceanographic Society （SFJO） was established and cooperation with France on oceanography began. In the late 1960s, oysters farmed in France died in large numbers due to diseases, and oyster farming was in danger of extinction. French researchers then approached SFJO member Professor Takeo Imai of Tohoku University to see if Sanriku oysters resistant to the diseases could be exported to France. The research team led by Professor Imai conducted quarantine and pathological tests to succeed in exporting 10, 000 t Sanriku single-seeded oysters （spat） to France. This export brought the French oyster farming industry out of crisis. Subsequently, French-Japanese cooperation also extended to fisheries science, and SFJO France was set up in 1984. On 11 March 2011, a huge tsunami hit off the coast of Sanriku, devastating aquaculture facilities. Immediately afterwards, SFJO France and French oyster farmers including another French groups contacted SFJO to support oyster farmers in Sanriku in return for their spat export. These organisations and SFJO donated essential equipment for oyster seed collection, such as microscopes and plankton nets, to the prefectural fisheries experiment stations and prefectural fisheries cooperatives in Sanriku. This article outlines the French-Japanese exchange on these fisheries science.

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  • La mer

    La mer 61 (3-4), 107-127, 2024-03-27

    The Japanese-French Oceanographic Society

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