Fishery Youth Industry Skills Development Exchange Meeting: Weng Chang-liang and Chang Chih-sheng Jointly Present Flags, Calling for Unity

On the 29th, the Fisheries Agency held the "Fishery Youth Industry Skills Development Online Gathering" at the Chiayi County Innovation Academy, bringing together case-sharing from aquaculture and fishing, aquatic product processing, and marketing industries. Through simultaneous live streaming on the Fisheries Agency's Facebook fan page and the Young Aquaculture Farmers Group's Facebook community, highlights of cases and entrepreneurial experiences were shared with fishery youth, hoping to help young people succeed in starting businesses. County Magistrate Weng Chang-liang also specially attended and, together with Fisheries Agency Director-General Chang Chih-sheng, jointly presented flags as a call to action. Through this pledge ceremony, it symbolized fishery youth setting sail in unity.

County Magistrate Weng Chang-liang thanked the Fisheries Agency for its dedication in bringing together fishery youth representatives, marketing experts, and policy experts, while also conducting a live online broadcast. Through the sharing and exchange of cross-disciplinary success stories in aquaculture, marketing, processing, and fishing, marketing experts sorted out and analyzed marketing highlights one by one, while policy experts explained the difficulties encountered and the resources that could be provided. This model was used to assist and inspire fishery youth both on-site and online, helping them find more diverse development paths to realize their dreams of pursuing a career in fishing.

"Youth are the new hope to carry forward the future of Taiwan's fishery industry!" County Magistrate Weng Chang-liang shared that last year Chiayi County mentored and established the "Chiayi Young Aquaculture Farmers Association," a youth force equipped with a support mechanism of instructors and advisors. At the same time, through the establishment of the "New Agriculture Development Committee," the launching of the "Guoben Academy" and "Aquatic Products Elementary School," the promotion of "Technology-based Fishery," the planning of the "E-commerce Chiayi Premium Fresh Aquatic Products Zone," "Diversified Development of Aquatic Products," and various diversified channel matchmaking and marketing guidance efforts.

County Magistrate Weng Chang-liang expressed the hope that by integrating the strength of small-scale fishers, the production and marketing competitiveness of small-scale fishers can be strengthened, creating more opportunities and vitality for young aquaculture farmers. He hopes that the new generation of fishery forces will become the living water for the sustainable development of Taiwan's fishery industry in the future, bringing new prospects and value to Taiwan's fishery industry.