Eels, too, dropped in price, but just about the same time as the Tungkang Fishery Research Institute succeeded in its experiments in artificially propagating a kind of edible shrimp.
這個「新興行業」和種香蕉一樣，過了一段風光的時日。後逢東港水產試驗所人工繁殖草蝦試驗成功，不少人改為養殖草蝦。