creators_name	Kuo, Chijeng
creators_name	Li, Chocheng
type	conference_item
datestamp	2018-12-06 10:04:19
lastmod	2018-12-13 16:06:42
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title	Real Illustration of Continuity in Human Fishing/Hunting Cultures from Past to Present - introduction about the conservation of stone tidal weirs at Taiwan
ispublished	pub
subjects	E09
subjects	H17
subjects	J05
subjects	O06
subjects	P04
full_text_status	public
pres_type	paper
keywords	sweat-equity
keywords	conservation management planning
keywords	stakeholder participation
keywords	sustainable development
keywords	local communities
keywords	stone tidal weir
keywords	fishing
keywords	local culture
keywords	intangible heritage
keywords	crafts
keywords	traditions
keywords	know-how
keywords	Taiwan
keywords	restoration of cultural heritage
keywords	Underwater Cultural Heritage
keywords	maritime heritage
keywords	sea
abstract	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.
date	2018
date_type	published
event_title	ICOMOS 19th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium "Heritage and Democracy"
event_location	New Delhi, India
event_dates	13-14th December 2017
event_type	other
refereed	TRUE
referencetext	Lin wen-zhen (2017): General Investigation of the Stone Tidal Weir Cultural Assets, Masataka TAWA (2010): Stone Tidal Weirs of East Asia in Transition, Jimbun ronkyu, 59(4), P.95-107 (2010-02-20). Asahitaro Nishimura (1981): Maritime counterpart to megalithic culture on land, La pêche traditionnelle en Océanie, P.255-266. Zayas, N. Cynthia (2001): Describing Stewardship of the Common Sea among Atob Fishers of the Pacific Rim Islands : Cases form the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. Masataka TAWA (2002): 石干見研究ノート:伝統漁法の比較生態 Chen Meng-lin (1771): Annal of Chuluo County.
citation	Kuo, Chijeng et Li, Chocheng (2018) Real Illustration of Continuity in Human Fishing/Hunting Cultures from Past to Present - introduction about the conservation of stone tidal weirs at Taiwan. In: ICOMOS 19th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium "Heritage and Democracy", 13-14th December 2017, New Delhi, India. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier]
document_url	https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1973/1/52._ICOA_1238_Kuo_SM.pdf