Deep Bay

They are the refugees who swim from China across the waters of Deep Bay to Hong Kong. The escaping refugees spend four to eight hours in the water, dodging Chinese gunboats and battling the tides. They usually swim to a beacon about midway between the two shores and then make for another beacon on the Hong Kong shoreline. The large oysters of Laufaushan, which are cultivated, in beds extending far out into Deep Bay, are the delight of Hong Kong gourmets and the despair of the refugees because the refugees land with their arms and legs cut and bleeding from crawling across the oyster beds.

1972 June 22, Ian Stewart, “Chinese Refugees Swim Across a Perilous Bay to Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2020, page 2

An alliance of environmental groups has urged the Hong Kong government to conduct an ecological study before taking forward plans for the Northern Metropolis megaproject so as to avoid the loss of wetlands. It also called for officials to double to 3,000 hectares (7,413 acres) the size of the Ramsar wetlands site on Deep Bay’s southern shore, a natural habitat in Yuen Long district protected by international treaty.

2021 December 14, Nadia Lam, “Hong Kong officials urged to conduct ecological study on Deep Bay wetlands before proceeding with Northern Metropolis”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2021, Health & Environment