By Hitoshi Ono / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff WriterMINAMI-SANRIKU, Miyagi — At the peak of the wakame seaweed harvest in March and April, I visited fishermen in the town of Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture. The wakame from the Sanriku coastal area off Iwate and Miyagi prefectures has been one of the first elements of the local fisheries industry to recover from the Great East Japan Earthquake. It can be preared in many forms, such as salt-preserved seaweed, or enzo wakame. This method requires a lot of time and effort by seaweed farmers after harvest. At the end of March, I got on a fishing boat belonging to Choki Abe, a 59-year-old fisherman, at the Tomarihama fishing port in Minami-Sanriku at 5...
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