Following the decline in their numbers, whale sharks are today worth only around NT $ 20 million a year to Taiwan's fishing industry, so the conflict between conservation and fishermen's interests is much less than in the case of cetaceans.
在台灣，隨著鯨鯊數量的萎縮，如今鯨鯊每年為漁民帶來的產值亦不過兩千萬左右，因此鯨鯊保育與漁民利益的衝突不似鯨豚嚴重。