Chou Lien-siang readily concedes that the Kuokuang industrial harbor would not completely cut off the north-south movement of the dolphins, but warns that the 17-meter waters off the jetty and the 27-meter shipping channel would approach the dolphins 'limit, and the added interference of ship traffic would force humpback dolphins to expend more energy to get through this area.
周蓮香不諱言，國光工業港雖不至於「完全阻斷」海豚南北交流，但港口堤頭 17 公尺水深、航道 27 公尺的深度，已逼臨白海豚活動水深的上限，加上船舶來往的干擾，白海豚需要花更多能量才能游過這段海域。