The modern fish centre is desi to completely. revolutionize the old marketing practices, provi sharp contrast to the "dingy old market on the Nantao Bund where 350,000,000. business. is being transacted yearly despite lack of system, facilities whatsoever and prope: storage for large consignments, It is reported that the yearly import of native fish in both fresh and salted forms is worth $20,000,000 while the import of foreign fish here amounts to about $20,261,000, The construction of the modern market follows a tour of Japan by special commission consisting of Messrs. Hou Cho-hai, Chang Chur taun, Wang Teb-fa, and Hsu Tsing-chi, architect, in 1933, Early the following year, promotion and technical committees were appointed to carry out the building plans.
All the unite of the Fish Market fare of reinforced concrete. One sec tion of the wharf, 600 fect long, has three steel pontons, leading to three tone-storey godowns which are cap~ ible of holding 1,000 tons of fish. Directly behind the godowns is the market proper and there stands the office building, a three-storey structure with a seven-storey tower to! accommodate wireless and observa tory installations, There is also 3 big) building for the brokers. Th: cold storage plant has a capacity of 1,500 tons of fish in addition to producing 50 tons of joe daily for market sale.
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