◎ Categories： Local Attractions

◎The Introduction of Zhuwei Fishing Port

　　　In recent years, Taoyuan Fishermen Association strives for the funds and expands facilities of fishing ports actively to look after fisherman's livelihood, including: building the north bank breakwater, the sea view corridor, and the bridge across the port and establishing the direct selling centre of fishing goods, seafood street, and the activities of parks directly to households, etc. Now Zhuwei Fishing Port has a scale of a leisure fishing port and is well known in Taipei and Taoyuan. During weekends, many people visit Zhuwei Fishing Port, which helps the economic growth of the fishing village and also increase fisherman’s income. In the future, after Zhuwei Rainbow Bridge and Zhuwei Leisure Fishing Port are established, Zhuwei Fishing Port will become a port with pluralistic function including both leisure fishery and ocean recreational activities, and Zhuwei Fishing Port will become the model for fishing ports of pluralistic function.

◎The Introduction of Our Research Project

　　Zhuwei Fishing Port is famous in Taoyuan. Zhuwei Fishing Port is located at the artificial harbor and the exit of the eastern river, and the waters are vast. The people of Qing Dynasty depended on Zhuwei Fishing Port for trading to the ports of Xiamen, Fuzhou, and Shantou. Zhuwei Fishing Portwas very prosperous at that time. However, in the recent years, the pollution in Taoyuan ocean is very serious. The fishery, therefore, gradually degenerates. Recently because of the efforts of the government and local business, now Zhuwei Fishing Port has a scale of a leisure fishing port and is well known in Taipei and Taoyuan. In our project, we hope to know more about the development of local fishery by collecting the interviews and the information of the history and the fisherman association of Zhuwei Fishing Port, the tour map, and the religion in Zhuwei.

◎Our Internet

　　There are forty computers for students in our computer classroom. Our students could surf on Taiwan academic net-TANet.

◎Conducting Research

1. Selecting a Topic and Collecting Sources

　　After brainstorming, our research group chose the topic: “Fall in love with the beauty of Taoyuan- Zhuwei Fishing Port.” However, we did not know Zhuwei Fishing Port very well. At first, we only knew about touring in Zhuwei, so we spent a lot of time discussing, collecting sources from the internet, book, and other sources, and doing interview with group members’ parents. After discussing our topic and visiting Zhuwei Fishing Port, we began to know more about our research.　　

2. Our Research Group Members and Discussions

　　 Because our research group members from different classes, we could only discuss during the lunch break and morning break. It was very difficult to choose a good time for all our group members to get together to discuss our research or do the interviews. Because we have 11 members in our group, when we visited Zhuwei to do the interviews, we separated into several teams. After we visited Zhuwei Fishing Port and evaluated our sources, we found that because each team had different point of view, every one collected similar sources and missed some sources. Therefore, we had to contact to our interviewers to do the interviews again.

3. Using Digital Machines

　　Digital Cameras: Although our teachers taught us how to use digital cameras, some members did not take the right pictures or only got blurred pictures. Fortunately, we used digital camera. Therefore, once we failed, we could take new pictures immediately.
　　Digital Recorders: When we transferred the recoding into the computers, we had to use other softwares to change the form. However, the sound was not clear. After we tried different sofwares, we finally got clearer sound.
DV: Although we did make digital videos, the documents were too big. Therefore, we could use them as other sources and did not put them on our website.

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◎Reflections

　　　In order to join this contest, we spent a lot time to collect and evaluate the sources. In our research, we learned how to collect and evaluate sources, to make our website, and to use digital machines, and we also learned how to the interviews. We really learned a lot from our research project.
　 　After we completed our website, our research project was almost finished. We were very pleased what we had accomplished. We are looking for our research project “Fall in love with the beauty of Taoyuan - Zhuwei Fishing Port”that could help the leisure and tour business. We hope that more visitors could come and visit Zhuwei Fishing Port and the stores in Zhuwei that really helped us a lot when we did our research and interviews.