Aside from the older workers already plying this trade, hard-working and longsuffering native Taiwanese workers, overseas laborers coming from afar, as well as Chinese fishing workers docked in port now made up the mainstay of the manpower needed to haul up the nets and transport the fish.
漁撈、卸載作業的主要勞力來源，除了年長的既有成員外，辛苦耐勞的原住民、遠渡重洋的外籍勞工和寄泊於內港的中國大陸漁工，則成為南方澳漁業發展的生力軍。