The conflict between offshore wind power and fishing grounds starts again! Fishermen: the symbiotic relationship of marine fishermen should be respected, and manufacturers: the government should protect the legal right to start work.

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The conflict between offshore wind power and fishing grounds starts again! A few days ago, Desang Dade Company carried out wind farm drilling (HDD) operations off Yunlin, which was accused by coastal fishermen of damaging the ecology of the fishing ground. There was a stalemate between the two sides. In June alone, there were four clashes between fishing boats at sea. The manufacturer's representative had promised to stop work without an agreement, but in the early morning of July 27, fishermen found that the "flag" marking the location of the fishing net at sea had been cut off, and Dade's vessels sailed into the fishing ground again, and the fishermen were angrily staggering, and the two sides chased each other in the sea again, and the scene was dangerous and hot.

Li Pingshun, one of the fishermen who led the protest, stressed: "fishermen are affected households, not nail farmers, and the catch given by the fishing ground is far more than the compensation from the manufacturers." He believes that the wind power industry does not understand the symbiotic relationship between the ocean and fishermen, and has failed to fulfill its obligation of notification and communication before and after the project. Even if green energy construction is a national policy, fishermen should not be sacrificed.

Chen Junli, the general manager of Honghua Construction, a representative of manufacturers, believes that the conditions demanded by fishermen are too high to reach a consensus. If fishermen do not show their sincerity in negotiation, they will ask for public power to intervene to protect manufacturers' legal right to start construction.

On July 27, Dade Yunneng Company again tore up the agreement to force its way into the fishing ground, and Yunlin fishermen once again confronted each other at sea. Fishermen provide seniors: Yunlin coastal fishing village has declined due to the decline of Liuqing, but Taizi Port is rising against the trend and vigorous and prosperous.

The four coastal towns of Yunlin, Mailiao, Taixi, Sihu, and Kouhu, have relied on fishing and aquaculture since ancient times. however, after Liuqing settled at the mouth of the Zhuoshui River, the coastal fishery space has been greatly compressed, and the outlying island industrial zone has also changed the drift and sand of ocean currents. Five ports to the south of Liuqiang, Taixi Harbor, Santiao Harbor, and Luziliao Harbor are gradually depressed due to serious silt.

Compared with the serious blockage of the fishing port on the north side of the coast, Taizi Port in the south has become one of the few fishing ports that can still operate normally, thus rising against the trend and becoming the most active fishing port along the coast of Yunlin, with nearly 400 fishing boats moored in the destination port. Lin Wen-chin, a veteran of Taizigang who has been fishing for half a century, saw that after the establishment of the six light factories in 75, Taizigang at the southernmost end had the least impact, so he got the opportunity.

"Yunlin is only more than 40 kilometers away from Penghu, which is the narrowest place in the waters of the Taiwan Strait. In the middle is a black trench with extremely fast velocity and great pressure, but along Yunlin there is a shallow flat piled with river sand, which has become an important sea area for fish schools to live in." Lin Wen-chin explained the symbiotic relationship between what fishermen call "rice urn land" and the prosperity of Taizi Port: "although Taizi Port is mostly speedboats and small boats, it has high speed, mobility, low cost and large catch, and the most important thing is to be close to excellent fishing grounds in order to bring about today's prosperity." .

The seniors who have been fishing for half a century point to the direction of the sea, indicating the prosperity of Taizi Port. (photograph ∕ Lin Jiyang) from fishing and fish farming to coastal farming, three industries are rich in Taizi Port.

"fishermen in Taizi Port can go out to sea and raise fish on sandbars in the inland sea. if they do not want to go to sea, they can also raise fish along the coast. these three industries support each other." Lin explained that the old, weak, women and children in the village can be raised and processed on shore from the age of eight to 80, and the industrial chain of fishing villages benefits hundreds of families in coastal villages and towns, such as Shuilin, Jinhu, Yiwu, and so on.

"the impact of Liuqing is not over yet, and now offshore wind power is coming to disturb it. Underwater construction has caused damage to the fishing ground, which not only affects offshore fishing, but may also lead to the demise of Taizigang fishing village." Young people look at daily life, while the Mesozoic generation considers the livelihood of their families, but Lin Wenqin, who has been begging the sea for half a century, is worried about the fate of coastal fishing villages.

The operation of wind turbine changes the whirlpool of ocean current, occupies Fengrao fishing ground and changes ecology.

Li Quanfa, chairman of the Tiantai Palace of the Taizigang Faith Center, explained the fishermen's concern: "more than 80 wind power generators have occupied the fishing area. We use the rule of thumb to predict the tides and put down the fishing net to know when and where to close the net, but when the fan goes on, the eddies of the ocean current will change, and we don't know where the laid net will float. How should fishermen put their nets in the future? "

"the bottom of the sea has high and low landforms, a food chain and a life circle, which is called fish grottoes by people who ask for the sea. However, in order to lay the submarine cable, the consortium work ship turned the bottom of the sea again. " Li Quanfa asked the core question of fishermen: "what happened to our fishing ground?" Do not tell us, nor let us know that the entire offshore wind power development has not held a seminar for fishermen. "

Li Jiahong, a Mesozoic fisherman, added, "this has a bearing on how fishermen will survive in the future." 80 fans range from east to west, ten nautical miles from north to south. It happens to occupy the most fertile fishing ground, and more than a hundred fishing vessels still fishing in the working area cannot be generalized with coastal sandbar fishing vessels, but they are regarded as one. "

Li also asked: "whenever there is an alternation of cold and heat in the seasons, it is easy to get foggy at sea and the line of sight is limited. If the satellite loses its signal and hits the upper fan in Shanghai, may I ask how to settle the compensation if there is an accident dispute?" For fishermen, neither the government nor the wind power companies have ever consulted fishermen who depend on the sea for a living.

Fishermen allege that the laying of piles and cables for 81 offshore fans along the coast of Yunlin will cause havoc in the marine ecology and damage to fishing grounds. Liao Rongxiang provides an environmental impact report: the sea floor disturbance caused by offshore fan operations is locally temporary, and fishermen do not think so.

With regard to the assessment of the impact of the damage to the fishing grounds, the organizer of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Yunlin Government said that the wind turbine development project falls within the authority and responsibility of the central planning, not the local government, and believes that the impact assessment of the development of offshore turbines and its consequences should be undertaken and coordinated by the central government.

Reading the Environmental impact statement of the Construction Plan of Yunlin Offshore Wind Power Plant published by the Environmental Protection Department, Chapter 7 states that the disturbance to the seafloor caused by offshore wind turbine undersea operations is inevitable, but it is local and temporary. However, paradoxically, the article also points out that submarine cables must be buried on the seafloor, and digging before the project will worsen the water quality of the disturbed seafloor, piling operations will also drive away seafloor organisms, and larvae and juveniles that cannot be moved can not escape casualties.

The manual also emphasizes that local trawlers operate to destroy the seafloor, and after offshore fans are installed, they can protect the seafloor "from bottom towing, which is an unsustainable fishing method that destroys seafloor habitats, regardless of species," that is, the inconvenience caused to fishing operations, offshore fans can become a conservation area for marine resources to thrive.

During the undersea operation of the wind power company, fish shoals continue to die in the fishing ground. Fishermen provide the argument that the fishermen at the bottom are ecological destroyers. Fishermen say: "sincerely change your feelings."

Fishermen expressed strong dissatisfaction with the discussion of wind power development that "destroy before conservation". "when working ships work at the bottom of the sea, there is a layer of dead fish floating on the sea surface, and the so-called marine resources are harmed without benefiting them at all." Li Pingshun stresses that if fishermen do not come forward to defend the fishing grounds, there may be an even more serious ecological catastrophe: "after the destruction of the topography and landform of the seafloor, how can the fish and ecology be restored? However, the promised construction environment monitoring has not been made so far, and no unit has come forward to be responsible. "

Li Pingshun believes that the depletion of marine resources is the common industry of mankind, which is caused by many factors, and the responsibility should not be blamed on vulnerable fishermen: "it is an unshirkable original crime for fishermen to rely on fishing for a living. Yunlin has long restricted trawlers that destroy the bottom of the sea, and most of the bottom trawlers breaking in are foreign vessels. Coastal fishermen mostly operate in accordance with the relevant fishing laws, and criticizing fishermen for harming the sea can be said to be 'sincere exchange of feelings'."

Li Pingshun stressed sadly and angrily, "this area is a traditional fishing ground that Yunlin fishermen have relied on for generations, and it is not owned by any individual or consortium. If consortia want to use forcible occupation, fishermen will also use fishermen's way to defend fishing grounds and their right to survival."