Recovery and Change: Sanriku Fisheries Shifting Focus Seven Years After 3/11

Marusen’s newly built seafood processing plant in Minamisanriku.

Once fully operational, the factory will produce a wide variety of seafood products.

Oyster and seaweed farmer Gotō Kiyohiro says sustaining the fishing industry requires improving how marine resources are managed.

Gotō (on forklift) unloads freshly harvested wakame.

Traffic flows past a construction site along a coastal road in Onagawa.

Fisherman Japan leader Abe Shōta makes his living farming wakame.