Over the last decade, the coastal fishing catch in Taiwan has steadily declined. "In particular, bottom-dwelling fish, which have the most economic value and are most popular, have been the earliest to be exhausted," says Hu Sing-hwa of the Fisheries Administration of the ROC Council of Agriculture.
近十年來，台灣沿近海漁獲量逐年遞減，「尤其是最具經濟價值、也最為人們喜愛的底棲魚類最先枯竭」，農委會漁業署署長胡興華表示。