okinawa coral NPO diving 海人 沖縄 素潜り ダイビング サンゴ 珊瑚

We cooperated to make a video on resource management for Awase & Hamaya SATOUMI Fishery Council.
(Cameraman/Chotaro)

INO helped Marine Comms Ryukyu, Inc. in a field test for UNDER WATER VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM.

As the HOBO temperature data loggers which we had set in July 2014 were recalled, we did the clearing work in the form of volunteering.

On Japan Post Co., Ltd.'s "2014 New Year's Donation Allocation Project", INO's "Setting Exclusive Ships for Efficient Actions to Improve Marine Environment such as Planting Corals Project" was adopted and so ships were built.

We carried out the diving operation of equipping the investigation ship, THE SEVENTH KAIYOUMARU with a research device. (Associate ASAHI SCUBA TECHNIQUES)

We finished the post-project survey of the sea area where we carried out Nakagusuku Bay Left Mozuku-net Clearance Project supported by Environmental Contribution Fund of THE OKINAWA KAIHO BANK.

We finished the disposal of waste Mozuku nets that we collected and kept. This Nakagusuku Bay Left Mozuku-net Clearance Project was supported by Environmental Contribution Fund of THE OKINAWA KAIHO BANK.

We visited the Ishigaki Branch of Okinawa Prefectural Government Fisheries and Marine Technology Research Center, and learned about marine resources management of the Yaeyama region from Mr. Yuichi Akita, a research fellow of the center.
* This was carried out as a part of the Core Research Project, "Creation and Sustainable Governance of New Commons through Formation of Integrated Local Environmental Knowledge" (ILEK), of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature.

About ILEK, refer to the website

　

We visited Yaeyama Fishermen's Cooperative Association and interviewed Mr. Tadashi Yogi, the chief of youth group and Mr. Kazuhiko Arashiro, a staff member of the association about fishery-resources management.
*This hearing was conducted as a part of the Core Research Project, "Creation and Sustainable Governance of New Commons through Formation of Integrated Local Environmental Knowledge" (ILEK), of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature.

About ILEK, refer to the website

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Yanagida works as a secretary to found the Fisherman Divers' Section in Okinawa City Fishermen's Cooperative Association. He also works as a chairperson to establish the Council for Resources Management of the ninth area of common fishing right.

We met Ms. Mitsuko Tomon, the Mayor of Okinawa and informed her of our winning the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Prize.
And we made a petition for increasing the connection rate of citizens' home sanitation to the public sewerage system.

We　were given a grant for our project by Environmental Contribution Fund of OKINAWA KAIHO BANK.

The project is a parent and child workshop, “Let's have a try at
environmental research”.

We carried out Nakagusuku Bay Left Mozuku-net Clearance Project,
in collaboration with Okinawa-city Fishery Cooperative, and removed
about four tons of nets that were left in the offing of Awase,
due to typhoon and other causes.

We joined in surveying three dams
on Kunigami County, in Okinawa Prefecture.

We organized a cruise in Nakagusuku Bay, to show the environment
of the sea in Okinawa now, to the proffessor and some graduate students
of University of Tsukuba.

Having had the support of Environmental Contribution Fund
of THE OKINAWA KAIHO BANK, we carried out a clean-up
on the breakwaters and in the sea around them which are in the
offing of Awase, with the help of Okinawa fishery cooperative association.

With the support of Environmental Contribution Fund of THE OKINAWA KAIHO BANK, we carried out a survey of the present condition around breakwaters in the offing of Awase, to examine the state of drifts and fishing lines thrown away and left in the sea in collaboration with Okinawa fishery co-operative association.

At the headquarters of THE OKINAWA KAIHO BANK.

One of our members attended the presentation ceremony
of Environmental Contribution Fund of KAIHO bk.

INO is subsidized \700,000 for Cleaning Project of Breakwaters
in the offing of Awase.

We made underwater inspections and repairs of facilities in White Beach area, and of earth wires attached to naval piers there, three times in all during the time.

We carried out an inspection and repair of underwater drains in White Beach area.