Sea Urchin, the Origin of an Export Venture Driven by Japanese Immigrants
The History of Entrepreneurship in Mexico
ISBN: 978-1-83909-172-8, eISBN: 978-1-83909-171-1
Publication date: 3 June 2020
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the contribution made by migrants in the territory that hosts them, particularly when they transfer their knowledge to members of the community. In the specific case of the sea urchin fishery, it is described how the Morishita family in Baja California undertakes the sea urchin value chain, from the location of population banks to the commercialization of the product in the Japanese market and, by therefore, the promotion of development in rural places while starting a culture of export and currency generation. An adventure of opportunities that has been successful for more than 50 years, whose origin is the sustainable use of “a plague” that today is a delicacy for many.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
To Michio Morishita for sharing his life, his passion, his pleasure in serving the community, his joviality. A happy man from whom we must all learn. Thank you. To Karin Yosé Bückle López, for being the link with the primary fishing and aquaculture sector, mainly with the sea urchin product system. To the sea urchin product system and its members, for the initiative to capture the history of the fishery.
Citation
López Torres, V.G., Moreno Moreno, L.R. and Sánchez Limón, M.L. (2020), "Sea Urchin, the Origin of an Export Venture Driven by Japanese Immigrants", Alvarado, A.A. and Montiel Méndez, O.J. (Ed.) The History of Entrepreneurship in Mexico, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 125-146. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-171-120201009
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