Now it's four or five thousand, and still nobody comes to ask about it. "As to what caused large scale deaths of shrimp, up to today there is still no conclusion," says Ting Yun-yuan, director of the Tainan branch of the Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute. It could be that the shrimp had bacteria, that the water was polluted, or that they were raised in excessive density.
「至於造成草蝦大量死亡的原因，到今天還沒有定論」，台灣省水產試驗所台南分所所長丁雲源指出，蝦苗帶菌、海水汙染、養殖密度過高等，都有可能。