Old fishing boat captains who work out of Hsingta fishing harbor can remember when boats would enter the harbor proudly flying eight ROC flags (each of which represented 10,000 mullets). Yet the entire national catch for the recent winter season was only some 156,000.
興達漁港的老船長們還記得曾有漁船插著八面國旗風光進港的場面（一面國旗表示抓到一萬尾烏魚），然而最近一次冬至，台灣總共只抓了十五萬六千多尾的烏魚。