While I have been critical of the Hong Kong fishing industry and the fact that fishing in Hong Kong is currently not sustainable, I am not completely dismissive of the important part that the fishing community has played in Hong Kong’s history. So it’s good to see from the SCMP that a working model of a traditional 1960′s fishing trawler has found a home at the Maritime Museum. This type of junk used to trawl in Hong Kong and Macau waters, but has now disappeared entirely.
The model was built from memory in the 1990s by a former Aberdeen fisherman, Ng Sap chat, and he has now kindly donated it to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum at Murray House in Stanley. Thanks to the SCMP for the above photo. If you are a subscriber you can read their article on their website. (Or if you read this quickly enough, you can pop out and buy the paper!)
