In this modern age the traditional Chinese junk, still plays an important part in fisheries and transportation in Hong Kong. In sheltered bays around the coasts there are many yards where these craft are built and repaired (below). In recent years many junk-owners have gone over from sail to power. Because inshore waters are badly over-fished many junks are now starting to go much further out to sea to make their catch. To cope with new problems of navigation, junk owners can send their sons to a special school run by the Co-operative Development and Fisheries Department.
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More than 5,000 ocean-going vessels call at Hong Kong each year, many of them dropping anchor in the harbour where they are loaded or unloaded by Chinese junks (above). The Colony's Preventive Service is functioning more efficiently than ever before and in addition to checking ocean-going vessels searches more than 20,000 junks each year.
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