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      <title><![CDATA[Tsunami devastates abalone fishing industry]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <attribution source="www.kansascity.com"><![CDATA[http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/17/2806024/tsunami-devastates-abalone-fishing.html]]></attribution>
      <createdate unixtime="1329872947" delta="12 hours ago"><![CDATA[2/21/2012]]></createdate>
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      <lead><![CDATA[The March 11 tsunami dealt a crippling blow to abalone fishing along the Japan's Sanriku Coast, sweeping tons of debris into the sea and destroying fishing vessels.]]></lead>
      <text><![CDATA[It is expected to be years before abalone fishing in the area can resume, leading some retailers in China-a major consumer of abalone-to rush to secure supplies.Iwate Prefecture is known as a major producer of dried abalone, which is called Kippin abalone in China and elsewhere. Thick and tasty, it commands high prices as a luxury item.After the earthquake, Yoshihama Bay was hit by a 50-foot-high tsunami that utterly destroyed a fishermen's cooperative building. Of 296 ships working before the disaster, only 11 survived.Dried abalone is made from abalone harvested in the wild, but according to Yoichiro Kikawada, production chief of the Yoshihama fishermen's cooperative: "The tsunami totally changed the coast. The abalone may have been totally destroyed."According to the prefecture's fisheries association, abalone takes about five years to grow large enough to be harvested. It will also take at least two to three years to remove the debris in the sea and rehabilitate the port.Overall, this means about 10 years before abalone fishing can return to full strength, the association said.A fisheries operator in the city said its abalone production facility had been totally destroyed, but dried food wholesalers in Hong Kong and elsewhere have asked it to resume fishing soon."I can't find anything better than Kippin abalone...I have to have it," one wholesaler was quoted as saying.A marine products exporter in Tokyo was asked to sell its stock of abalone to a Chinese food company."Most retailers in Hong Kong have a year's stock (of abalone), but they'll panic about getting dried abalone if fishing can't resume anytime soon," a spokesperson for the exporter said.]]></text>
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