Surveillance was installed so that the police would be able to apprehend anyone in violation of the ban on line or blast fishing and the gathering of shells and sea urchins. Within two years the bumphead parrotfish, one of the signature large fish species long absent from the region, made an astonishing return. So impressive were the results that another conservation area was created at Tiaoshi in 2008.
戴昌鳳表示，保護區內設有監視器，舉凡釣魚、炸魚、採集貝類、海膽等禁止活動，一經發現，墾丁國家公園警察隊立即舉發，短短 2 年就讓消失已久的大型指標魚種──隆頭鸚鵡魚──現身了，由於成果顯著，2008 年墾管處又在「眺石」增設一處保護區。