The city of Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, is working to attract young people with no experience in the fishing business and nurture them to become fishers who can operate independently with their own ships.
Genta Okasaka, 27, who moved to the city from Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, started working as a trainee in August on a fishing ship operating in a bay in the city’s Nishiura district.
The program is part of a project to support new fishers, launched by the Gamagori Municipal Government and the local fisheries cooperative using government subsidies.