鹽工為何轉漁？戰後臺南七股鹽場鹽工的生活處境（1946-1949）

Why Salt Worker Became Fisherman? An Investigation into the Life Situations of Workers in the Qigu Salt Plant from 1946 to 1949

臺南七股鹽場乃戰後政府接收的晒鹽產區之一，西元（以下同）1946年卻因颱風而受到極大的破壞，使得被禁錮於臺南鹽業公司契約的鹽工生活處境更加困苦，因此除了部分鹽工為了躲避鹽警追緝而冒險偷鹽，更為了生計向鹽業公司申請租借魚塭地養魚，然而養魚卻與鹽業公司所欲達成晒鹽產量有所衝突，而養魚更是造成鹽業設施的耗損，因此造成鹽業公司與鹽工們在生產上的矛盾。本文透過國史館臺灣文獻館的《臺灣鹽業》檔案，探討從1946年至1949年期間由鹽民生計所構成的偷鹽與「鹽魚問題」，以期能更深入探討「鹽魚問題」的性質。

Qigu Salt Plant was one of the most important salt producing areas after World War II in Taiwan. However, in 1946, due to the typhoon, the salt field was greatly damaged. This made the living situation of the salt workers who were constrained under the contract of the salt company even more difficult. Therefore, except for some salt workers who chose to steal salt at risk of against the salt police system, some applied to the salt company to rent a fish farm to raise fish. However, fish farming was not only in conflict with the amount of salt production that the company wanted to achieve, but also damaged the salt production facilities, thus the conflicts between the salt company and the workers were arisen. Based on the interpretation of the Taiwan salt records in the Taiwan Historica, the author discusses the salt theft and the“salt-fish problem”caused by the livelihood of salt workers during the period from 1946 to 1949 in Taiwan, compares the“salt-fish problem”with the research of“The Contradictory Relationship Between Rice And Sugar: Development And Dependency In Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945”by Chih-Ming Ka, and also expect further research on the nature of the“salt-fish problem”.