Dolphins facing extinction Kuo Chin-tung points out where the industrial parks now stand, there were once plants and animals living on sandy beaches and seabeds. That habitat was destroyed forever. Furthermore, structures such as breakwaters that extend into the sea disrupt the action of waves, causing reflection, refraction and diffraction. When fill is added, it changes water depth and water position, altering in turn the flow rate of currents ….
郭金棟指出，以工業區為例，填海造地以後，水域消失成為陸地，原本以該海灘、海床為棲地的動植物就永遠消失；而海中興建海堤等結構物，使波浪受阻擾而產生反射、折射、繞射等現象；因填土改變水深、水位，則導致海水流速改變… …。