These small backyard eel farms grew until many of them became large-scale commercial enterprises. Although Lukang emerged as the center of the newly established eel industry, nurseries could be found from Taitung in the southeast to Ilan and Taoyuan in the north of Taiwan.
前些年有位漁民在沿海撈鰻線時發現一隻死狗，狗屍中竟然藏有鰻線無數，讓他一個晚上發了廿多萬元的財。