Nowadays, Liao Hung-chi goes up north every week to NTU to listen in on marine mammal and animal behavior classes. He has also actively begun to make plans for his next research project, and he is devoted to establishing a society in Hualien concerned with the welfare of cetaceans, hoping that Hualien can develop whale-watching tourism, to let the fishermen and all the creatures in the sea live well at the same time.
現在的廖鴻基每個星期北上，到台大旁聽「海洋哺乳動物」和「動物行為學」，並積極開始籌措下一趟的研究計畫。他還忙著在花蓮成立關心鯨豚的社團，希望花蓮能朝觀光賞鯨發展，讓漁民和海中所有生物能夠同時好好生活下去。