Since the 1998 El Nino weather pattern, however, there was a change in the directional patterns of Pacific currents and fishing returns sharply declined, not to mention that in the early days the fishing was continuously depleting fish stocks and not carried out sustainably.
但自從 1998 年「超級聖嬰」現象出現，洋流流向變動，漁獲頓時大減，加上早期漁民沒有永續經營的觀念，長期濫捕下，造成今日漁獲枯竭的慘況。