Associate Professor Wang Wei-hsien of the marine resources department at National Sun Yat-sen University has conducted research at Yuanpei, and says: "Such a large area of subtidal shallows is rare anywhere in the world.
中山大學海洋資源系副教授王維賢到此調查時就指出：「這麼大的亞潮帶淺坪，世界少見。