THE STORIES ABOUT CULTURAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND KYUSHU

The "Mother of the Sea" -a Phycologist who saved Japan's Laver Farming Industry

Madame Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker was a famous phycologist who elucidated the ecology of nori, an edible seaweed, as a professor at the University of Manchester in UK. Kyushu University professor Sokichi Segawa, who was friendly with Madame Drew-Baker, took the results of her research to Kumamoto Prefectural Fisheries Research Center. The center’s subsequent research succeeded in 1953 in artificially seeding seaweed for the first time, establishing modern seaweed cultivation techniques. In 1963, seaweed farmers built a monument to Madame Drew-Baker in Sumiyoshi Park (Uto City), which looks out on the Ariake Sea.

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