Huang Yuan-chao, a PhD candidate at National Taiwan University's Graduate Institute of Oceanography whose dissertation is on the influence of cage and net farming in Penghu on coral ecology, is well versed on Loya's ongoing debate with nemesis Baruch Rinkevich.
以「澎湖箱網養殖漁業對珊瑚礁生態系影響」為博士論文的台大海洋研究所博士候選人黃元照，對羅亞和對手大打筆戰的經過知之甚詳。