SHIMA/TOBA, MIE – Growing up by the sea, Mr Yushi Ikeda and Mr Toyofumi Hamagiwa followed in the footsteps of their mothers to become ama free divers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
– Growing up by the sea, Mr Yushi Ikeda and Mr Toyofumi Hamagiwa followed in the footsteps of their mothers to become“My mother was an ama, and she asked if I was keen to join her,” says 37-year-old Mr Ikeda, who has nearly 20 years of experience diving in his home town in coastal Shima city.
Ama diver Yushi Ikeda, 37, holds onto a float attached to a net in which the catch of the day goes. ST PHOTO: WALTER SIM the number of male divers has crept up from 145 in 2018, to 156 in 2021. This cushioned a dip in female ama numbers from 430 to 421.Small ama communities exist across Japan, and half of Japan’s ama are believed to be based in Shima and Toba in Mie prefecture. Each settlement is insular and works by its own rules.
Pearl oysters have historically been found in the Ise-Shima region, and ama are commonly described outside Japan – anachronistically – as “pearl divers”. However, harvesting of natural pearls is all but impossible these days, as the oysters vanished off Japan’s waters by the late 19th century due to overfishing.
Mrs Kyoko Hamagiwa, in Shima, says: “When I started out over 30 years ago, my net was filled to the point where I could not fill it with any more abalone. But today, we could not even get one abalone.”
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