Estimation of Population Ecological Characteristics of Small Yellow Croaker, Pseudosciaena polyactis off Korea

한국근해 참조기의 자원생태학적 특성치 추정

This paper deals with the estimation of population ecological parameters, including growth parameters, survival rates, instantaneous coefficient of natural mortality and age at first capture, of the small yellow-croaker, Pseudosciaena Polyactis in Korean waters, which determine fluctuations in stock abundance. For describing the growth of the small yellow croaker, von Bertalanffy growth equation was recommended for the purpose of stock assessment, although the Gompertz model yielded the closest fit. The survival rate (S) of the croaker was estimated to be 0.219 (variance=0.0000262), and the instantaneous coefficient of natural mortality (M) was 0.4 $year^{-1}$. From the estimates of S and M, the instantaneous coefficient of fishing mortality (F) was calculated to be 1.11$year^{-1}$ implying an impact from fishing three times that of natural mortality. Finally, the age at first capture $(t_{c})$ was estimated to be 0.602.

한국 근해 참조기 자원의 양적인 변동에 관련되는 자원 특성치인 개체의 성장식과 개체군의 생잔율, 순간사망계수 및 어획개시연령 등을 추정하였다. 참조기의 연령과 성장 관계는 Gompertz 성장 모델의 선형화 방법에 의한 이론적인 적합도가 가장 높았으나 실용적인 면을 고려하여 von Bertalanffy 성장식의 이용이 권고되었다. 생잔율은 0.219(분산: 0.0000262), 순간자연사망계수는 0.4/년으로 추정되었다. 최근의 순간어획사망계수는 1.11/년으로 추정되어 순간자연사망계수의 약 3배 정도로 높게 나타났다. 어획개시연령은 0.602세로 추정되었다