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中学生の頃、水島製油所の事故で大量の重油が瀬戸内海に流れ込んだことがあった。重油が海岸に流れ着き、すごく油臭かったことを覚えている。数十年間瀬戸内海に魚が住めなくなるのではと思われた。海釣り少年の私はとても悔しかった。しかし自然の治癒力は人間の想像をはるかに上回った。磯にべっとりと張り付いた重油は数年できれいになり、やがて魚が瀬戸内海に戻ってきた。ところが時代は高度成長期。家庭排水、瀬戸内沿岸の工場の汚水が瀬戸内の自然を徐々に蝕んでいった。「昔は魚がクーラーボックス一杯釣れたのに・・・」という嘆きの声をよく聞く。もはや豊かな瀬戸内海は戻ってこないのだろうか？

In 1974 an accident at the Mizushima Oil Refinery resulted in leakage of heavy oil from a storage tank. The oil slick was widely dispersed, and resulted in extensive damage and loss to local fisheries. As a boy, I was very shocked to hear that several decades ahead there would be no fish living in Seto Inland Sea. But the power of the nature was stronger than we thought. The Sea became cleaner and cleaner year by year. On the other hand, we were in the midst of the "rapid economic growth." The sewage water from the households and factories polluted the Sea. Can we still enjoy the richness of the Seto Inland Sea again?