Fishermen's Intelligence through the Ages and Satellite Oceanography

Abstract

Through the ages, Japanese fishermen have handed down a large volume of intelligence of sea, air, fish and their interrelation. The most interesting is of the stormy currents called Shikeshio. Near the capes, a strong current system is induced by atmospheric lows and often brings with it a big catch of yellowtail.
In this article, the knowledge of Shikeshio is made revitalized as the sea and air truth for the satellite oceanography of the Kuroshio. Based on it, a deterministic eddy system is reasonably interpreted on NOAA imageries and its geofluid mechanics is uncovered.
Some snapshots are also presented together with NOAA imageries and weather charts to document an exciting big. catch of yelloxtail at the Cape Ashizuri, that had resulted from an arrival of a strong low in the March of 1988.