Last summer, Chou Lien-hsiang accompanied several cetacean scholars to Hualien, going out to sea to observe the quantity of whales and dolphins. They found that the rate of cetacean sightings there was rather high. Therefore, there was once a thought to conduct a "Hualien coastal area cetacean ecological research plan."
去年夏季，周蓮香帶著幾位國際鯨豚學者到花蓮，出海觀察鯨豚數量，發覺當地的鯨豚發現率相當高，於是曾有進行「花蓮沿岸海域鯨類生態研究計畫」的想法。