Residents demand completion of Isahaya reclamation project

NAGASAKI, Japan - Some 600 residents of the town of Takaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, stage a rally on March 24 to demand the completion of a state-run reclamation project in Isahaya Bay in the prefecture and oppose the opening of a dike in the bay. At a meeting held in the town, the residents chanted, ''Don't open the drainage gate.'' Local seaweed farmers, whose livelihoods have taken a hammering from the poor seaweed harvest, have been demanding the opening of the gates to revive the local ecological system.

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