Catching milkfish requires a helmet to prevent head injuries
Catching milkfish requires a helmet to prevent head injuries
2025-05-05
Catching milkfish might sound like a relaxing activity. It’s fishing after all. But did you know that it’s quite similar to a game of dodge ball? Milkfish are very jumpy creatures, so fish farmers in Chiayi have taken to wearing helmets whenever they go to the breeding ponds. Any small sound or ripples in the water causes the fish to leap up, sometimes giving fishers a strong slap to the face.
Budai is a major milkfish farming region in Taiwan. But take a closer look at this fisher. He’s wearing a helmet! Do people here keep them on after riding a scooter?
Member of public
Maybe he forgot to take it off when he went to catch fish. If you leave it on it’s really stuffy and annoying.
Member of public
It must be to protect himself. It makes no sense if it’s just for a laugh.
Before fishing the milkfish, fishers here have to disturb the ponds by sailing in circles on motorized boats. The process scares the fish, making them leap up from the water and fly around everywhere. You’ve got to be careful to not get slapped in the face.
Chang Chien-cheng
Chiayi Agriculture Department
When you startle the fish, they set off from the pond like little rockets. To prevent head injuries, some fishers wear a helmet when they go to work at the ponds.
Fishers say that frightening the fish clears waste from the fish’s bodies and firms up their flesh. One milkfish can weigh 2kg to 3kg, and if it slams into your face, it can feel like a powerful punch. That’s also why fishers tend to crouch when they cast nets. Some even put plastic baskets over their heads, or wear baseball catcher’s helmets. But the top tier of protection are road helmets customized with metal wiring.
Chen Hung-shuo
Chiayi aquaculture association
If you don’t dodge them, you will get smacked by the milkfish. To prevent injuries from the crashes, everyone wears helmets.
Did you know that catching milkfish was such a dangerous activity? Well, now you know.
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捕魚也要戴安全帽!? 漁民自製安全帽防止虱目魚衝撞
2025-05-05
騎車要戴安全帽，你看過捕魚也要戴安全帽的嗎？這是在嘉義縣的虱目魚池裏，因為虱目魚在捕撈時，魚群受到驚嚇，會瘋狂跳躍，衝出水面，力道宛如一顆小砲彈，要是被打到頭，輕則瘀青，重則腦震盪。為了保護自己，漁民自製安全帽加鐵紗網來防撞。
嘉義布袋是虱目魚的大本營，看看水上這位漁民，竟然帶著安全帽，難不成騎車要戴安全帽，划船也要戴安全帽嗎?
[[民眾]]
“可能要抓魚，忘記把安全帽拿下來，不然戴安全帽，難道不會不方便，不會很熱嗎?”
[[民眾]]
“應該是要保護他的安全吧，要好玩就不正常了”
原來漁民在捕撈虱目魚前，都會「弄魚」，駕駛膠筏快速的水面上畫圈圈，成千上萬隻的虱目魚受到驚嚇，同時瘋狂跳躍，衝出水面，飛來飛去，一個不小心，就會打到膠筏上的人。
[[嘉義縣農業處漁業科長 張建成]]
“魚隻因為受到驚嚇，會在空中飛躍亂竄，就很像那些小火箭砲一樣，為了避免被魚撞擊到頭部而受傷，部份的漁民他們會戴起安全帽，來去做水下的工作”
弄魚的目的除了可以清空魚隻的排洩物，還可以讓魚肉更加緊實。一隻重達兩三公斤的虱目魚撞過來，就像是顆小砲彈，因此漁民在圍網時，都會蹲低身體，也有人直接在頭上戴上塑膠籃子，還有人戴上棒球捕手的面罩，現在更進化，利用安全帽，再一片加裝鐵紗網。
[[嘉義縣養殖協會執行長 陳泓碩]]
“工人若沒閃過，就會被虱目魚撞到，為了避免頭被虱目魚撞到受傷，所以都會戴上安全帽”
民眾在享用虱目魚美味的同時，大概沒想過抓個魚居然也會這麼危險。
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