[Coral-List] fish hunting in Taiwan

[Terrence Lee 李晨光]

Hi, everyone~
Last week I went to dive at a small island that at the southeastern  
and 14 km away from Taiwan(part of our territory, of course Taiwan is  
a small island too, but is much much bigger that that one).
It's beautiful diving site, beautiful soft corals, stony coral reefs  
and other marine creatures... I even thought it's much beautiful than  
those around Florida Keys and Key West where I had ever lived for  
three months.
But I felt something odd... no fish!! Correctly to say, there is no  
big fish, even bigger than 15 cm is rare to see...
I asked the local protector( and is the diving tour shopkeeper), he  
said it's because of fish hunting! sad~
There is no regulation here to prohibit fish hunting except some  
specific areas, and even though this area is protected by relative  
laws or regulations, it is still hard to enforce prohibiting fishers  
from illegal fish hunting, no matter those fishers are local or come  
from other places.


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KEEP WALKING, KEEP SINGING
KEEP LAUGHING, KEEP FIGHTING
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Terrence Lee
Coast Conservation
Urban and Rural Development Branch
Construction and Planning Agency
Ministry of Interior, R.O.C. Taiwan
http://www.tcd.gov.tw/tcd/ENGLISH.asp

Tel:886-2-27721350-316
Fax:886-2-27523920

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