Huang notes that hiring mainland Chinese hands is not without problems. He says that when a fishing boat makes a port call in Guam, for example, the Taiwanese hands usually go ashore for a rest, and sometimes even fly their families there to meet them. The unregistered sailors, on the other hand, are not allowed ashore for fear they will desert.
黃枝福指出，像遠洋漁船行到關島，台灣籍船員都可以上岸抒散心情，甚至家屬早已坐著飛機前來「探親」，但非法雇用的大陸籍漁工卻因為有潛逃之虞而不准上岸。