The lower priced imports of fish products into Japan as a result of the globalizing economy have brought about the weakening of local fishing industries and the impoverishment of local societies, making it difficult for fishing industries and villages to exercise their many functions. First, it is necessary to promote local innovation with fisheries at its core, and bolster "human security Eby creating a new marine products production system. In order to realize this, it is essential to have a concept of the local area's future in which residents Eefforts are added to those of industry, academia, and government, and which is attentive to global trends.

This year Misaki Marine Biological Station(MMBS) has concluded an agreement with Miura city to begin an initiative towards community-based marine education using the city's elementary and junior high schools as model cases. This article will introduce these activities, including those, already begun at MMBS with Research Center for Marine Education (The Nippon Foundation) and Ocean Alliance, the University of Tokyo.

In the manned submersible Hakuyo's forty-year history it boasts more than 7,900 dives, a record unmatched around the world. Its dive objectives have varied widely, including surveys for seabed cables and pipelines, the filming of seabed organisms, biological and hydrothermal vent studies, and search and recovery of sunken vessels, aircraft, and other objects. Although unmanned submersibles now predominate in deep-sea exploration, I believe there is still a large role to be played by manned submersibles, which allow inspection by the naked eye.