Jiadong and Linbian were, until inundated by the floods of Morakot, Taiwan's "grouper kingdoms." The Fisheries Agency of the Council of Agriculture, calculating based on production costs per fish, announced that the complete destruction of the fish farms in the two townships caused total losses of at least N $ 2 billion.
遭莫拉克洪水吞噬的佳冬、林邊，是台灣「石斑王國」的養殖重鎮，這次兩鄉的魚塭全毀，漁業署以魚隻成本估算，損失至少新台幣 20 億元，但漁民以售價和毀損設施估算，至少一百多億元。