Hibi farming (seaweed farming) - Hibiyoshoku

Japanese: ひび養殖(篊養殖) - ひびようしょく

A method of cultivating seaweed and oysters. Also known as hibi-ken cultivation. Bamboo, soda (thin tree branches), nets, blinds, etc. are set up in shallow waters, and seaweed spores and oyster larvae are attached and allowed to grow. These underwater structures are called hibi, but were originally intended for catching fish. It is said that seaweed farming began in the early Edo period when fishermen living near Omori in Tokyo Bay noticed that seaweed would grow in the hibi they had built to catch fish, and began building bamboo hibi and soda hibi for the purpose of cultivating seaweed.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

ノリおよびカキの養殖方法の一つ。ひび建式養殖ともいう。竹，そだ(細い木の枝)，網，すだれなどを浅海に設置し，ノリの胞子やカキの幼生を付着させ，成長させる。海中に設けたこのような施設をひびというが，本来は魚を捕るための施設であった。　江戸時代の初期，東京湾の大森付近の漁民が，魚を捕るために建てたひびにノリがつくことに着目し，ノリを育てる目的で竹ひびやそだひびを建て込むようになったのがノリ養殖の始まりといわれている。

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