A Japanese Village That Helped Develop California's Fishing Industry Could Become Container Storage
Residents are fighting to preserve Terminal Island, a historic Japanese fishing village with only two remaining buildings.
From the turn of the 20th century to the early 1940s, a human-made island in San Pedro Bay held a flourishing Japanese American fishing village that helped develop Southern California’s mighty seafood industry.
On Terminal Island, more than 3,000 first- and second-generation immigrant fishermen from Japan, the issei and nisei, pioneered innovative techniques, like 6-foot bamboo poles and live bait, to catch albacore tuna and...
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