Sustainable Fishing Industry

The coastline of Pingtung County is about 169.9km, the branch of Kuroshio also flow pass the surrounding sea of the Hengchun Peninsula. The land aquaculture surface is nearly 5000 hectares, making Pingtung one of the most important cities for the fishing industry. The average income for every fishing family is about NTD$ 2,377,000, ranked No.3 in Taiwan. Pingtung has superior techniques in breeding Grouper, 50% of Grouper farm lies in Pingtung, valued about 67% nationwide and export value is over NTD$ 5,000,000,000. In the future, we will continue to integrate the space, the resource and the policy to protect ocean environment and guarding it by the sustainable principle, pursuing a sustainable ocean resource development.