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Hegurajima lies 50 kilometers off the coast of Noto Peninsula. It is well-known as an island showing seasonal migrating of fishing families between the island and the peninsula. About 200 fishing families move to the island from Wajima City on the north coast of the pennsula.
Coastal fishing on the island depends on woman divers gathering awabi, ear-shell, during warm season. When the fishing season is over, they go back to their permanent residence of Wajima. After closing fishing season the island is an uninhabited island until the next season.
However, in recent years about a half of fishing families stay even in cold seasons, they do not leave the island but seek for the other kind of fishery. Their fishing depend on off-shore and hand-line fishing in recent days. These fishings by men, not woman divers seem to develop in the future. Income of new fishings is much more than diving fishing. They have also another interest of sightseeing industry on the island to increase income. As a result, permanent residence of fishermen has begun to built. Schools for children are already established. The old pattern of living on this island is now changing.
