On the exportation of dried abalone from Japan to China, government control over production and the problems faced by local governments and fishermen see: Arne Kalland 1995. Fishing Villages in Tokugawa, Japan, Honolulu
Dolores Martinez, in her book Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The making and becoming of person and place, Honolulu, 2004, provides an excellent review of all kinds of research on ama divers, ranging from lexicography to physiology, ethnography and archaeology, and outlining traps and baseless assumptions. Also, useful to those who do not speak Japanese, it presents and comments on relevant publications in Japanese.
The use of abalone mother-of-pearl in Japanese art, especially as inlays, is described in a text by Yoshikumi Taguschi, a laquer artist. Taguschi Y. 1988. Essay on shells that became cherry blossoms, in Brommelle, N.S. and Smith, P. (eds.), Urushi: Proceedings of the Urushi Study Group, June 10–27, 1985, Tokyo.
An overview of Bronze Age fishing in the Aegean Sea can be found at the following paper: Mylona D., 2014. Aquatic animal resources in Prehistoric Aegean, Greece. Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki 21(1), 2 – 11.
On the exploitation of marine resources, various examples from Bronze Age excavations and the identity of the Minoan fishers, as well as on the significance of triton shells is given in the following papers:
Mylona, D., 2020. Marine resources and coastal communities in the Late Bronze Age Southern Aegean: A seascape approach. American Journal of Archaeology, 124(2), pp.179-213.
Apostolakou S., Betancourt Ph., Brogan T.M., Mylona D. and Sofianou C.,
2014. Tritons revisited. In Touchais G., Laffineur R. and Rougemont F., eds, PHYSIS. L’ Environment Naturel et al Relation Homme – Milieu dans le monde Égéen Protohistorique, Actes de la 14e Rencontre égéenne internationale, Paris, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), 11–14 décembre 2012. Aegaeum 37, Peeters, Leuven – Liege, 325 – 332, tables XCII – XCIV.