「黒潮牧場・四国」 桜井永治  

「Kuroshi Farm - Shikoku」  Eiji Sakurai




 

漁師たちは毎日の仕事に命をかけて「板子一枚下は地獄」という緊張感のなか、魚という限られた資源を求める。
黒潮によって運ばれて来た自然の恵みに甘えるだけでは勇壮な黒潮の狩人たちも広大な太平洋を魚群と共に右往左往し、漁は常に運任せになってしまう。
貧栄養な黒潮は透明なヘリの潮目に回遊魚を集め、漁師たちは「海上の道」を通り、漁場と港を往復しながら安全を確保し無駄を省く。
そんな海の牧場と黒潮が洗う沿岸で、養殖という栽培漁業がこれからの漁業の在り方を示している。


Fishermen are risking their lives every dayat their work. Under the intensity of "only a piece of wood between here and hell", they go for limited resources called fish. If they only chase gift from the nature carried by Kuroshio current, brave Kuroshio hunters will have to go left and right chasing schools of fish in the vast Pacific Ocean. In this manner, fishing is nothing but luck. Since Kuroshio current is lacking nutritions, fish tend to gather at the transparent edges.Fishermen journey through the "Ocean Path" and they go back and forth between fishing ground and port; they can be efficient and safe this way. In the seacoast washed away by ocean farm and Kuroshio current, new shape of fishing called aqua farming is indicating the future of fishing industry.