Dear Oniiru-san,

Really nice to read your golden memory story.
Iheya is a remote place even for us living in the main island of Okinawa.

I have visited there several times in order to conduct a research project
on green snail, because the shell had been over-exploited very hard,
almost to local extinction, thanks to diving gears that facilitated easy
harvest of reef molluscs. We have bred the snail successfully to find
its early life history, and I reported it in a book on marine resources of
Pacific islands.

http://www.cc.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/~coral/GreenSnail.htm
Sorry that my webpage on the green snail is only in Japanese but you
may find the pictures of sequence of development in the snail. That
was in the late 1980s and I remember fishermen of Iheya with fond
memory.

Masashi Yamaguchi
Univ. of the Ryukyus
Okinawa

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