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Succulent and slippery—who can resist the large, famous oysters from Chiayi County’s coastal towns of Budai and Dongshi? Behind their exceptional quality is a scientific secret: home to Taiwan’s first continuous automatic marine water quality monitoring stations—funded by the Ocean Affairs Council—the region tests the surrounding sea for purity and even microplastics. Here is how high-tech monitoring protects one of Taiwan’s favorite delicacies.

Placed on the grill in their shells, the oysters pop open once cooked to reveal plump, juicy meat. All sourced from Dongshi and Budai in Chiayi, these oysters are so fresh they’ve earned the title "milk of the sea."

Weng Chang-liang
Chiayi County Commissioner
Coming to Dongshi and not eating oysters is like not having been to Dongshi at all. Our oysters are incredibly fresh and delicious. We have two seawater monitoring systems along our coastline in Dongshi and Budai. If you go online, you can see the state of our overall water quality. We monitor it regularly.

How are such high-quality oysters cultivated? Let’s take a closer look behind the camera lens.

Arriving at the Dongshi’s marine area automatic water quality monitoring station, it’s like we are entering a mini monitoring lab. Funded by the Ocean Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan and built for the Chiayi County Government, this station provides continuous automated monitoring of the surrounding waters.

Chiu Mei-chun
Ocean Affairs Council
A dual-station monitoring network was established in Budai and Dongshi, enabling 24-hour monitoring of the marine environment, with data transmission occurring every 5 minutes.

Seawater is extracted to monitor its quality. If abnormalities are detected, the water will be automatically directed to a sample storage container and then sent to the laboratory for more precise testing.

Chuang Hui-chuan
Chiayi County Environmental Protection Bureau
In recent years, another sampling technique for microplastics has been added. Oysters are filter feeders, so after they filter the water, microplastics may remain in them. That’s why we test for microplastics as well.

The oysters from Budai and Dongshi are famous far and wide, thanks not only to the efforts of the fishermen, but also to the efforts of relevant authorities in maintaining the quality of the seawater, which serves as the strong foundation behind their success.

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