The Noto Peninsula earthquake has also had a major impact on the fishing industry in Ishikawa Prefecture. I accompanied experts on an on-site investigation at Kaiso Fishing Port in Wajima City. Associate Professor Aoki Kento of Kanazawa University's College of Regional Creativity Studies said, "It's an amount of crustal movement that we rarely ever see. The white area is where the water level was originally. I do this kind of work, but it's a sight I've never seen before. To be honest, I'm at a loss for words." The earthquake caused the ground to rise about 90 kilometers off the northern coast of the Noto Peninsula, and the entire Kaiso Fishing Port in Wajima City dried up. Associate Professor Aoki: "It's amazing just to look at it." Announcer Inagaki Shinichi: "This is the bottom of the sea now, isn't it?" Associate Professor Aoki: "Yes, that's right." Announcer Inagaki: "Seawater has come up here, which means this entire land has risen up." Associate Professor Aoki: "Yes, the whole land has risen up, including the seabed. So the ship has dried up, been washed ashore. The ship was originally anchored, but the ship didn't sink; the land rose up and it became stranded." Associate Professor Aoki went down to the rocks to examine the amount of uplift. Announcer Inagaki: "It's almost unbelievable that we're standing here on what used to be the seabed." Associate Professor Aoki: "I can't believe it either." When they measured the height of the uplift... Associate Professor Aoki: "If we go this far, it's about 4m30-40cm, and this is the part where the ground has risen. Originally, the sea was up to where the color changed." Announcer Inagaki: "How fast did it rise?" Associate Professor Aoki: "This is because crustal movements are occurring while the earthquake is occurring, so it was basically for the one minute the earthquake was occurring." Announcer Inagaki: "So the ground rose 4m in just one minute." Associate Professor Aoki: "That's right. It wasn't just this place that rose up, but the whole area around here rose 4m, so I think that people who were there at the time probably didn't feel that the land they lived on had risen 4m. They may have felt that the sea had gone down, but I understand that as a result, the impact of the tsunami was reduced by the amount that the ground had risen." Some researchers point out that the Noto Peninsula as it is today is the result of an accumulation of these earthquakes. It is said that this earthquake is of a scale that occurs once every 3,000 to 4,000 years. Associate Professor Aoki: "Looking at it in the long term, the Noto Peninsula has been subject to repeated seismic activity, creating many coastal terraces and gradually rising. We need to understand that this is not an isolated incident, but that we are witnessing one aspect of the long-standing workings of nature in Noto." Although the port is essential for the fishing industry, Associate Professor Aoki points out the difficulty of recovery. Associate Professor Aoki: "The big difference from the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake is that the ground has risen here. During the Great East Japan Earthquake, the port subsided, so as long as the facilities above the port were properly maintained, there was no problem with ships entering the original port. However, the ground has dried up here, so ships cannot enter here now. If we want to bring ships in here, we need to break and dig into the bedrock below so that ships can enter here, and we also need to lower the facilities, which have risen four meters, by four meters before we can land any fish. This will take a considerable amount of time, and will require enormous budgets and costs. So I think that Ishikawa Prefecture is facing a much more difficult task than the recovery of the fisheries industry after the Great East Japan Earthquake."