{"id":144573,"date":"2022-02-08T09:32:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T00:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=144573&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-02-08T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T00:32:22","slug":"poor-seaweed-harvests-continue-in-saga","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/poor-seaweed-harvests-continue-in-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Seaweed Harvests Continue in Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing plankton issues severely hit seaweed producers again this winter. Some seaweed farms in the southwestern area of Saga Prefecture have already put away their nets, even though regular winter harvests typically run until March. Poor harvests also struck in the fall season, preventing some producers from selling any seaweed at all.<\/span><b> Source:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saga-s.co.jp\/articles\/-\/804339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saga Shimbun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_ariake-seaweed_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C934&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_ariake-seaweed_2022_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_ariake-seaweed_2022_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_ariake-seaweed_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_ariake-seaweed_2022_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.google.com\/share\/AF1QipNgNRx-iX3eg0s-XZeoRpq1lgCy9Hjdzh79Ub7b_M7gTh19Klm2ktXcVk68xFKjBg?key=cWNkV0dqQ3FiRU5BUXFRNTBfTEQ5cjZQajFZTWVn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saga City Tourism Association Photo Gallery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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Some seaweed farms in the southwestern area of Saga Prefecture have already put away their nets, even though regular winter harvests&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":144569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-144573","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-saga-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/144573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}