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| "Adopt-a-Green Fish Farm Project" |
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From the mid-1990s, the increasing import of more cheaply produced freshwater
fish from Mainland China has led to a decline in the profitability of
pond-fish farming around Deep Bay. The intensive competition, thus, poses
negative impacts on the fish-pond farming industry in Hong Kong.
In response, local pond-fish farmers either:
1. leave the industry and abandon their ponds that some fishponds become inactive;
© Tobi Lau |
© Tobi Lau |
2. intensify their farming practices to increase the frequency of harvesting
through the year and not to completely drain down their fishponds for harvesting
every winter.
Consequently, the ecological value of the fish ponds is lost as the management
of fish pond changes.
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