Magang, Taiwan ¨C Unfazed by the crashing waves, 72-year-old Wu Feng-chiao yanks fistfuls of brownish-purple seaweed she will process into jelly, one of the last women in Taiwan keeping the marine harvest tradition alive.
Seaweed foraging on the rocky coastline at the edge of the Pacific Ocean can be arduous and dangerous, said Wu, whose passion has kept her going for more than half a century.
But as younger Taiwanese largely opt for city life over the island¡¯s remote northeast, she fears this tradition could vanish when her generation of ¡°hainu,¡°?or ¡°sea women,¡°?are no longer able to carry on.
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