The area has clean, unpolluted water, from which 80 % of the islanders make their living, and the Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute maintains a branch there.
「澎湖『風水』好嘛」，負責牧場營造之一的水試所澎湖分所所長劉繼源幽默地解釋，澎湖沒有工業汙染，又有百分之八十的人靠海維生，對沿岸的利用較為迫切，加上水試所澎湖分所在此有分駐站，近水樓台，方便照顧。