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The Keelung fishery industry originated from the Sanshawan Fishing Port based in Keelung Inner Harbor. Due to the natrual limit of development, The Taiwan Governor-General decided building a new, complete fishing port “Keelung Fishing Port” in Bachimen. Keelung Fishing Port completed in 1934 and the main method of fishing was trawling. Keelung Fishing Port was the biggest, most important fishing port in Taiwan during The Japanese Colonial Period. The urban planning of Keelung Fishing Port included fishery, administration, housing, research and education. It was a whole, great planning that still influence the Keelung fishery today. Keelung Fishing Port was renamed “Zhengbin Fishing Port” after WW2. The modern fishery in Keelung was introduced from Japan and the executives were almost Japanese. Due to the Port of Keelung was the most important transport hub in Northern Taiwan, it attracted lots of fishery immigrants from Japan. As the development of capitalistic fishery and Japanese immigrats, Keelung Fishing Port became a unique industrial settlement called “Fishery District”. We can see the development of Zhengbin Fishing Port today was based on the urban planning from The Japanese Colonial Period.
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