Globalization and Local Industrial Innovation: A Socio-Economic Study of Southern Taiwan’s Aquaculture

• Main Authors: CHIOU, YING-CHI, 邱盈綺
• Other Authors: HUANG, SU-JEN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76504754714947964120

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會學系 === 95 === Taiwan’s aquaculture enjoyed a rapid expansion in the 1970s by exporting to Japan, and then suffers a severe decline since 1990s as Taiwan’s primary industry loses comparative advantage to Chinese and Southeast Asian competitors in global market. In response to the decline of aquaculture since the 1990s many fish-farmers become part-timers and seek other sources of income. Some seek to maintain income by expanding production scale. And still others upgrade their business by switching to fish species of higher value, or/and by developing the lucrative technology of fish-hatching. The latter trend tends to be carried out by young fish-farmers with higher level of education. To illustrate the restructuring of Taiwan’s aquaculture outlined above, this study also investigates how grouper-farmers in three prefectures in southern Taiwan develop a division of labor and production network along the stages of fish-hatching and fish-raising, and shows that the mode of aquaculture production varies with natural, social and historical conditions of each locale.