00:01Here in the Penghu Islands in the middle of the Taiwan Strait,
00:04there's a long tradition of carefully stacking heavy stones like these in the sea to form fish traps.
00:11Called stone weirs, the tides carry fish into them, ready for the islanders to catch.
00:16They're tough to build, but good at what they do, taking the hassle out of getting fish from the sea.
00:22But while they're an important part of the island's culture, and some even attract tourists,
00:37many have been left to fall apart as modern fishing fleets make them obsolete,
00:41and young people leave Penghu for school and work on the main island of Taiwan.
00:46But there's a group of young people here in Penghu who have decided to turn this trend around with their own hands.
00:51They've set up a training program that teaches people how to maintain these stone enclosures,
00:56a cultural preservation project.
00:58It's a tough battle keeping all the island's many weirs in shape,
01:18but this group of locals are determined to keep the knowledge of how to do it alive.
01:23Devin Tsai, John Van Trieste, and Eric Gao for Taiwan Plus.
01:27For the mothers.
01:28The neighbors to celebrate, lunch from these young people,
01:34at the same мама at home to these young people.
01:36What about ridiculous earth?
01:38It has the morals to these young people.
01:40The most really bad hands you've arrived at the same time,
01:43and what this kind of system of being blessed is how to entertain their families in the state.
Comments