Chiang Wei-Chuan, a native of Singang, Taitung, is currently an associate researcher at the Taiwan Ministry of Agriculture’s Fisheries Research Institute. He graduated from the Institute of Oceanography at National Taiwan University and has held posts as an associate professor at the National Taitung University and as a civil servant at the Fisheries Agency. Dedicated to the preservation and transmission of eastern Taiwan’s fishery culture, he has contributed to documentaries on this topic and on popular science for the Taiwan Public Television Service and National Geographic Channel.