Pages tagged Tsunami
Varieties
Kesennuma
A Sanriku bay where oyster farmers planted trees upstream to feed the sea, and whose oysters recovered after the 2011 tsunami destroyed every raft.
Culture
How Japan Saved French Oysters
More than five billion Japanese spat, 562 metric tons of Canadian broodstock, and a debt France repaid after the 2011 tsunami. The rescue behind every French cupped oyster.
Varieties
Sanriku
The ria coast of north-east Japan whose oyster seed rescued French farming in the 1970s, and whose farms French growers helped rebuild in 2011.