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Wong Yung-kan is a representative of Hong Kong's fisheries and agriculture sector and a former member of the Legislative Council. Born in Hong Kong on 10 August 1951 with family roots in Huiyang, Guangdong, he came from a Tanka boat-dwelling family and was himself a fisherman who made his living from the sea, giving him first-hand knowledge of fisheries and farming. He had been active in district and fisheries and agriculture affairs since the 1990s. A member of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), he served Tai Po district for many years and sat on the Tai Po District Council, becoming well versed in the rural and fishing communities of northern and Tai Po. In the 1998 election for the first Legislative Council he was returned for the agriculture and fisheries functional constituency and was re-elected in later terms, representing the sector in the council for fourteen years until 2012, when the seat passed to Holden Chow of the DAB. Because the constituency had a very narrow electorate, he was returned unopposed in elections such as that of 2008. In the council he sat on several panels and spoke on fisheries and agriculture funding and support measures, focusing on fishery resources, the closed fishing season, the re-employment of fishermen, agricultural policy, rural development and the rights of fishermen and farmers, becoming the sector's main voice in the legislature. The seat has traditionally gone to an industry representative, and as a fisherman by background Wong long spoke for the trade. In 2016 he left the DAB and said he intended to run in that year's Legislative Council election. He has received the Silver Bauhinia Star and been appointed a Justice of the Peace. He has two sons and a daughter; his elder son works as a clerk and his younger son is in business.