ABSTRACT
In Hong Kong, fishery is probably the last major primary industry, and commercial freshwater fishponds are mostly located in the northeastern part of New Territories. With intensive rural development and increasing property values since the late 1970s, land administration in the New Territories of Hong Kong has become vastly more complicated than before. Much of the complication is a result of land usage having shifted from the primary production of agriculture and fishery to industrial and new town development. Wetland tourism could serve as an excellent educational device for understanding of the fast-changing modern society with a focus on the transition of wetlands from agriculture to other types of land use. Gastronomy, being a major part of the publicly recognized traditional knowledge of a local community can work well with tourism given that the outsiders’ perspectives of tourists is a major push for the locals to gain respects and be proud of their own traditions.
