被災漁港の復旧祝い竣工式　防波堤に魚の絵―福島・浪江

　東日本大震災の津波で甚大な被害を受け、３月に復旧工事が完了した福島県浪江町の請戸漁港で２０日、竣工（しゅんこう）式が行われた。東京電力福島第１原発から最も近い同漁港を最後に、被災した県内１０カ所の漁港全てが復旧した。
　式には吉田数博町長や漁業関係者、小中学生ら約４０人が出席。小中学生や請戸地区出身の大学生らが防波堤の一部に描いたカレイやスズキなどの絵のほか、町の伝統工芸、大堀相馬焼のサケのモニュメントが披露された。
　終了後、相馬双葉漁業協同組合の立谷寛治組合長は「一つの励みになり、ますますいい漁ができるのでは」と喜んだ。（2021/11/20-15:36）

A ceremony was held Saturday to mark the completion of work to reconstruct a fishing port in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, which was heavily damaged in the March 2011 tsunami.
   The Ukedo port is the closest Fukushima fishing port to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station, which was knocked out by the powerful earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. All 10 Fukushima fishing ports that were damaged in the tsunami have now been restored. The Ukedo port was fully reconstructed in March this year.
   The ceremony had some 40 attendees, including Namie Mayor Kazuhiro Yoshida, local fishing industry people, and elementary and junior high school students.
   Flatfish and Japanese sea bass painted on the restored port's seawalls by elementary and junior high school students, and university students from the Ukedo district were unveiled at the ceremony. Also showcased was a monument of salmon created using the Oborisoma traditional local pottery technique.
   The restoration of the Ukedo port is an "encouragement," Kanji Tachiya, head of a local fisheries cooperative, said after the ceremony. "I think that we'll be able to catch more fish," he added.