Itoshima Peninsula

This guide to the Itoshima Peninsula near Fukuoka traces how fishing communities along the Genkai Sea coast adapted after a thousand-year-old fishing ground began yielding less each decade. It follows the shift from chasing wild sea bream to raising oysters on floating racks anchored in the bay, seeded each spring with shells threaded with oyster seed. You will hear how the harvest defies Japan's national trend, and what greets you each October at the harbor in Kishi.