It was established on 17 January 2007; and on 4 October of the same year an administrative office was set up in Kaohsiung City.

The park is not open to tourism due to environmental restoration, safety, and ecological studies currently in progress.

[2] Seagrass Beds are well formed in the atoll and in adjacent waters, providing rich bio-diversities of marine life from fish, jelly fish, squid, sicklefin lemon sharks,[3] and rays to rarer sea turtles, Dugongs, and cetaceans (dolphins and whales).

[6] Possible use of the atoll as a breeding ground by lemon sharks have been speculated due to the numbers of infants that have been discovered.

In 2004, a project to restore and conserve the ecology was approved, then to explore the possibility of environmental education and tourism.