The TFRI's Yang Hung-chia notes that as you go southward along the west coast of Taiwan, things like the Taichung electrical generating plant and the Hsingta electrical station in Chiating have been built right on fishing grounds. And even people aren't willing to venture near the mouths of rivers with the polluted waste water they spew out, so why should fish?
水試所楊鴻嘉認為，從西部海岸一路下來，如台中火力發電廠、茄定興達電廠等，就建在漁場邊，沿岸河口排出的工業廢水，連人都不敢靠近，更何況魚？