Tao people in Taiwan and their struggle to keep their flying fish culture alive

The Tao people have lived on the small island of Lanyu, which belongs to Taiwan, for around 800 years. Flying fish have always been their source of food, especially in the summer months when whole shoals pass by Lanyu's coasts on their way to Japan. But the Tao's traditional fishing life is gradually being destroyed. The reason is the overwhelming competition from large-scale fishing.
The few men who still regularly go out to sea to catch flying fish are now of retirement age; the young people, almost half of the Tao, have left Lanyu in recent decades to find work and a better life on Taiwan's main island. How long will the ancient Tao culture be able to hold its own?

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Excerpt from the documentary "Taiwan - Fliegende Fische oder Atommüll" (360° - GEO Reportage)
Click here to watch the full documentary (in German): https://youtu.be/Uz7hFkRtHb4

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