碩士 / 臺北市立大學 / 環境教育與資源研究所環境教育組 / 102 / The ocean occupies two thirds of the surface area of the Earth. Its importance to the Earth, the organism and human beings is beyond comparison. Yet, if human kept
abusing the marine ecosystems, it would bring a catastrophe to the ocean and the entire Earth. Scholars are well aware of the issue, and start to plan marine conservation zones around the world, in hoping to preserve the diversity of marine ecosystems and marine environment. After the announcement of establishing Dongsha Atoll National Park in 2007, Taiwan continues to designate marine national parks or marine protected areas at suitable locations. Among these locations, the three isles located at the north-east of Taiwan: Pengjia Islet, Mianhua Islet, and Huaping Isle (together called Three Northern Islets), are considered as one of the protected areas. However, Three Northern Islets are away in the sea without any habitant. Thus, the issue regarding designating Three Northern Islets as marine protected area is crucial to the fishermen across the northern counties of Taiwan (including New Taipei City, Keelung City, and Yilan City). The success of every marine protected area is directly related to the interested parties, so the awareness and attitude that these fishermen have for the marine protected area would definitely have an influence over their future behavior and decisions about the marine protected area. This research is conducted to understand the awareness and attitude of those fishermen, and to provide an insight for units regarding designating Three Northern Islets as marine protected area. This research uses qualitative interviewing as methodology, and uses purposive sampling, selecting 12 fishermen within New Taipei City, Keelung City, and Yilan City that work in offshore fisheries as interviewees, and conducts semi-structured interviews.
The result of these interviews has revealed the awareness of the northern coast fishermen to the marine protected area, and their sensitivity of the changes in marine environment. They can definitely sense the decline in marine resources and the drastic change of scenery of the seashores. As to the acknowledgement of the environment around the Three Northern Islets, they are only concerned about the fish resources and has neglected other life forms in the waters and on the ground, the geology and geomorphology, and other natural resources. As to the meaning and designation of marine protected area, they have no basic understanding. Regarding the influence of marine protected area, they hope the project could bring a better marine environment and living qualities, yet still feel concern about the harsh result of having less economic incomes. And about the attitude towards marine protected area, the fishermen generally do not consider it of any importance, and do not support the Three Northern Islets being designate as marine protected area. The reason could be a lack of awareness and having misconception that lead to negative values and emotions. Even though the fishermen are fond of the ocean, the living and economic pressure might lead to a weaker emotion towards the local living environment and marine environment. As much as they want to protect the marine environment and resources, the limited abilities they have to protect the environment cause a difficult dilemma.
In conclusion, this research has provided several suggestions regarding the signs that the fishermen had shown about the issue. In the future, when the related organizations are designating marine protected area in the Three Northern Islets, this research might serve as a reference for facing the interested parties.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/102UT005007011 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | 潘彥志 |
| Contributors | 許民陽博士 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 158 |
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