碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 環境生物與漁業科學學系 / 99 / The study focuses on using questionnaire survey procedure to discuss the knowledge about fish, the cognition and behavior about fish consumption, and the need of information about fish consumption for the residents in Toucheng area, Yilan County. Then it proposed a striving direction for promoting the kind of healthy fish-eaten culture. The results are summarized as follows:
1. Toucheng is one of the important fishery towns in Yilan County, and it is abundant in marine ecological resources. The life of most residents here is closely related to the ocean. By the way, the opportunities for fish consumption are more convenient here. Therefore, to understand the residents’ cognition and behavior about fish consumption is the key factor of promoting healthy fish–eaten culture.
2. Most of the respondents are female. The average age is 42 years old. Level of education is junior high school. Most of them are engaged in the service industry and get a monthly income which is usually lower than 10,000 NT dollars. Most of the people can recognize fresh water fish and sea fish. They also can tell the four kinds of sea fish (shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish) that may cause health risks for pregnant women and women of child-bearing age.
3. For geographic reason, the fish that residents here eat most and most like to eat are hairtail, larval fish, tilapia, cod, Pacific saury and bulleye. Tilapia is a kind of fresh water fish, and the other 5 species are sea fish but not high-mercury-content. Therefore, the benefits of the fish that residents usually eat and like to eat are greater than the risks.
4. People here like to eat fish very much. Sixty percent of the residents eat fish in at least 7 meals per week. A portion of weight for fish in each meal is up to 25-50 grams. Nearly seventy percent of 36-80 years old people eat the whole fish more than the young people. Sixty percent residents eat canned fish. Almost forty percent residents eat fish balls often. Besides, they usually eat low-mercury-content fish and different species of fish. It indicates that as long as intake fish in a balance way, one can meet the health benefits of eating fish and also reduce the risks of the pollution of heavy metals.
5. The fish consumed usually caught by themselves or given as a present from their relatives, Because the price of fish is cheap, about fifty percent people spend less than 500 NT dollars a week to buy fish.
6. The 36-80 years old residents generally receive more information about fish-eating and pay much more attention to health caring, so they get more recognition about the benefits and risks of eating fish than the women of child-bearing age, the 23-35 years old young people. Thus, considering the risks of pollution of heavy metals, we need to offer information of fish consumption to young people especially.
7. Up to ninety percent of residents think that the benefits of eating fish for the health of human body are more than the risks. Over seventy percent of residents need to get more relevant information of eating fish. Due to public hygiene and health caring units in Toucheng area have not provided relevant information about the knowledge of fish consumption at present, it may cause a bad effect upon preventing people from the risks of exposure to the pollution of heavy metals.
8. The problems for promoting eating-fish-healthily in Toucheng area include: the lack of the cognition of fish consumption for young people, the need of the education of knowledge about fish, eating fish internal organs and eggs which are easily accumulated heavy metals, using a deep-fried or fried way to cook, and reduce the times of eating fish for not cook it.
9. The strategies of promoting fish-eating in Toucheng area in the future include: the guidance of fish consumption, the education of fish knowledge, providing healthy cooking handbooks for fish, setting up consultation organizations for pollution of heavy metals, strengthening the promotion of the knowledge of eating fish, increasing the times of cooking fish at home, and promoting healthy fish-eaten culture.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/099NTOU5451010 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Hsueh-Chen Chen, 陳雪真 |
| Contributors | Ching-Hsiewn Ou, 歐慶賢 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 99 |
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