The battle over the brook masu salmon is an important milestone in the history of ecological conservation in Taiwan. In this process the public, government agencies, and the environmentalist community are all learning the logic of sustainable development, and are coming to understand how to save a creature which is struggling on the edge of extinction.
櫻花鉤吻鮭的復育，對我國生態保育工作，是個重大里程碑，整個過程，社會大眾、行政單位、生態界也都在學習永續經營的道理，瞭解如何拯救一個做最後掙扎、面臨危機的生命。