Ac cording to research carried out by National Taiwan Ocean University and Liu Huang-chang, many species of crab were spread widely throughout Western Taiwan's tidal flats, but as the shores have been eroded and the beaches polluted, the once abundant seashore creatures have been rapidly declining.
根據海洋大學與劉烘昌對海岸進行的生態調查發現，西海岸潮汐區裡原本廣泛分佈著各種螃蟹，隨著海岸土地流失與海灘汙染，許多豐富的海岸生物正急遽銳減。