Fung Lok Wai () is an area of Yuen Long District that features

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Location

Fung Lok Wai is located south of the Inner Deep Bay, between

Yuen Long Industrial Estate Yuen Long Industrial Estate (, branded as ) is an industrial estate in Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is at the north of Yuen Long Town and opposite to Nam Sang Wai across Shan Pui River. It is administered by the Hong Kong S ...

and Hong Kong Wetland Park. Immediately south of Fung Lok Wai are the villages of is Ng Uk Tsuen and

Shing Uk Tsuen Shing Uk Tsuen () is a village in Wang Chau (Yuen Long), Wang Chau, Yuen Long District, Hong Kong. Location Shing Uk Tsuen is located north of Kai Shan and Yuen Long Industrial Estate, next to the villages of Tai Tseng Wai and Ng Uk Tsuen, Yue ...

of Wang Chau. Kai Shan is located to the immediate southwest of Fung Lok Wai.

History

In the early 20th century, and before the 1920s, the area was the site of

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and

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. The

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was initially reclaimed for rice cultivation. During the period between 1938 and 1945 the Deep Bay area was transformed into ''gei wai''. The fish ponds were first used in the 1920s for harvesting of shrimp, fish and crabs. They were historically owned by people from Shek Ha in

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and several

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families. By 1974 the land use of the area was converted to ponds for raising fresh water fish.

Conservation

* A part of "Inner Deep Bay", covering 1,036 hectares and covering an area north of the ponds as well as the northern section of the ponds, was designated as a

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in 1986.

Location

History

Conservation

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