Fishing boats are relocating between now and Aug 10 from their decades-old haven off Central Lovers Avenue in Old Xiangzhou to the new Hongwan Central Fishing Port just southeast of the Zhuhai Bridge. 

Xiangzhou Fishing Port has been a major anchorage where fishing boats in the Pearl River Estuary have taken shelter, loaded and unloaded, traded, and taken on supplies since it was built in 1957.  

Hongwan Central Fishing Port came under construction in August 2014 and opened last December. The first phase has a 727-m (795-yd) wharf in an excavated-in harbor basin with berths for unloading, resupply, ice and oil replenishment, as well as law enforcement.

Rendering of Hongwan Central Fishing Port

Covering 720,000 sq m (178 acres), the port has shelter and supply centers, an ice storage warehouse, auction hall, and aquatic product trade center. It can accommodate more than 800 boats with a capacity for 80,000 tons of marine and aquatic products annually.

Envisioned is a comprehensive marine economic development park and international fishing logistics port, which will next develop aquatic product deep processing, leisure tourism, and marine culture exhibitions. 

Hongwan Central Fishing Port

Xiangzhou Fishing Port [Photos courtesy WeChat account: zhuhaifabu]