踏溯台南

踏溯台南

文學院 通識教育課程

Ecology of Fishery and Sea Salt Harvesting─ The Nature and Culture of Tai-Jiang Lagoon

Route Introduction

  • The cultural knowledge of salt pans gathers here; the wonderful wetland is rich; both human beings and birds live to their fullest happiness.

     

       The coastal area of Tainan is rich in landscapes of the fishing and salt industry, covering districts such as An- ping, Ci-Gu, Jiang-Jun, Bei-Men, Xue- Jia, Jia-Li, and Xi-Gang, and others.Among them, Si-Cao and Ci-Gu are most spectacular. The history and culture of the salt-pan industry, and the wetlands,aquafarms, and lagoons rich in birds and fish families, can all be seen when students take this route.

       The Si-Cao Salt Pan Cultural and Ecological Village was formerly the site of An-Shun Salt under the management of Taiwan Salt Company during the Japanese rule. Salt pans were once deserted, but with the migratory birds and rich ecological environment in the wetland, it becomes the Salt PanEcological and Cultural Village. Among the salt villages, students will see a "Whale and Dolphin Rescue Center and Refuge" created by Professor Jian-Ping, Wang from the Department of Life Sciences of NCKU. He led the rescue team and many volunteers to restore the viability of whales and dolphins.

       It was followed by a visit to a very internationalized Water Conservancy Engineering Research Institute in Taiwan, the "Hydraulic Laboratory" located in the An-Nan Campus of NCKU (established in 1950), which is currently one of the world's top laboratories for water resources utilization and ecological balance.

       Lastly, we go north to the Ci-Gu coastal area (one of the twelve major wetlands in Taiwan). This place is an important wild bird habitat of Taiwan today and the winter habitat of the world's endangered species of black- faced spoonbill: a conservation species of migratory birds and the complete zone of mangroves and various aquafarms that provide fresh seafood and cultured fish.

       Therefore, this route allows students to experience the changes occurred in the salt industry, the life of a salt village in the past, as well as the rich ecological resources of Si-Cao, the rescue process of stranded whales and dolphins, and the observation of the marine ecology, especially the real situation of the habitat of black-faced spoonbills.