%0 Conference Paper
%A Kuo, Chijeng
%A Li, Chocheng
%B ICOMOS 19th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium "Heritage and Democracy"
%C New Delhi, India
%D 2018
%F icomos:1973
%K sweat-equity
%K conservation management planning
%K stakeholder participation
%K sustainable development
%K local communities
%K stone tidal weir
%K fishing
%K local culture
%K intangible heritage
%K crafts
%K traditions
%K know-how
%K Taiwan
%K restoration of cultural heritage
%K Underwater Cultural Heritage
%K maritime heritage
%K sea
%T Real Illustration of Continuity in Human Fishing/Hunting Cultures from Past to Present - introduction about the conservation of stone tidal weirs at Taiwan
%U http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1973/
%X Stone tidal weir is a traditional kind of stone trap made for fishing. Its prototype was a curved  U or V-shaped underwater stonewall laid within the intertidal zone. Sea animals could be brought into  the trap when the tide came up and left inside the trap as tide dropped. It’s a specific kind of human  landscape which could be found only if stones could be easily obtained at some shingle or coral reef  beaches. In Asia, the stone tidal weirs just existed in some parts of Korea, Thailand and western Kyushu,  Okinawa, Yaeyama, Quanzhou, and Taiwan. At Taiwan, this way of fishing was assumed practiced by  the Docas family of the Pinghu people of early Taiwan. As it was bearing wave erosions twice a day, its  construction deserved more efforts in regular maintenance than any other similar stone-laid walls like  terraced fields. Not just inexhaustible stones in hand, but sufficient labour which could spontaneously be  obtained by tacit understanding are key factors for these kinds of construction to be built and sustained.  Consequently, the sharing of the trapped-fishing was based on each household’s contribution in initial  construction and sustaining maintenance, the consensus in sweat-equity. Therefore, anywhere if the tidal  stone weir existed and could still function well, it could be regarded as a kind of human landscape which  manifested the genuine social production of fishing. At Penghu Islands and Houlung, the shingle coast  section of Taiwan some stone tidal weirs still existed and functioned-well under regular maintenance by  the government. Their existences witnessed the sweat-equity consensus associated with segmentedownership,  periodical fishing right, maintenance-responsibility and the labour contribution during initial  construction. Even existing, they are all under severe risk and sustainable management planning is urgent  and necessary. This paper proposed to make a brief introduction about Taiwan’s tidal weirs’ restoration  and maintenance which is trying to keep the real illustration of continuity of local fishing/hunting  cultures.