Tsunami Makes Miyagi prefecture fishing industry devastated
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ISHINOMAKI, Japan — The massive hulks of beached fishing vessels that dot the landscape of tsunami-ravaged northern Japan are too heavy even for the U.S. military to move back to the sea.
They loom over American troops struggling to clear smaller pieces of debris such as demolished houses and cars from battered neighborhoods in towns where, until recently, fishing was the major industry.
In Miyagi prefecture, where U.S. forces have concentrated their efforts, officials estimate 12,000 out of 13,000 registered fishing vessels, all of the region’s fish farms and its 142 ports were destroyed or damaged by the March 11 tsunami. And at least 440 fishermen are listed as dead or missing, a figure that officials expect to rise.
Norimitsu Kobayashi, 50, a government official who promotes commercial fishing in Miyagi, said the damage is likely valued at 400 billion yen or more.
“The industry is almost completely destroyed,” he said. “In all of Miyagi, only a small part — in the Shiogama area — is able to land fish.”
In Ishinomaki, a town that was once home to 162,000 people, fish rot amid damaged buildings and wrecked cars.
Also out of place are hundreds of fishing vessels sitting helplessly inland.
U.S. Army Col. Lance Koenig, who commands 10th Support Group soldiers temporarily based in Ishinomaki, said the Japanese recently asked the Americans to move a beached ship........more
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