Taiwanese fishermen even say openly that it was the Taiwanese who taught Filipino fishermen how to catch whale shark, and that many whale sharks also come onto Taiwan's market through illegal trading at sea between mainland Chinese and Taiwanese vessels.
台灣漁民甚至直言，菲律賓漁民獵捕鯨鯊是台灣人教的，大陸與台灣的海上交易中，也有許多鯨鯊轉進台灣市場。