Abstract
The combined hydroacoustic and demersal trawl surveys to investigate the distribution characteristics of fish schools in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea were carried out during the spring of 1997 by the training ship "Nagasaki Maru" of Nagasaki University. Fish samples were collected by bottom trawling from 9 trawl stations randomly selected in the survey area, and the species and length compositions of trawl catches are examined. Hydroacoustic data were collected by using a Furuno FQ-50 scientific echo sounder operating at 50KHz and the data stored in field were later processed in the laboratory. The results obtained can be summarized as follows ：1. In the 9 trawl surveys conducted in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, 78 species including 80 species of fishes, 4 species of Cephalopoda and 6 species of Crustacea, were identified. The most abundant species in these stations were swimming crab(Portunus trituberculatus), Japanese horse mackere(Trachurus japonicus), redlip croaker(Larimichthys polyactis) and the catch per one hour in each station ranged 7.7 to 182.5 kg/hour. 2. The mean volume backscattering strength for the entire water column and the bottom layer of the 0-10 m from bottom friction were -74.6 ㏈ and -68.2 ㏈, respectively. That is, the mean volume backscattering strength for the bottom layer was 6.4 ㏈ higher than that for the entire water column 3. In the surveys during the spring of 1997, the geographical distribution characteristics of fish schools suggests a trend of decreasing fish abundance toward the coast area of Korea and the highest demersal concentrations appeared in waters between the Cheju Island and the Tsushima Island 4. The distribution density of fish school in the East China Sea and Yellow Sea during the 1997 acoustic survey were estimated to be 6.65$\times$10$^{-5}$ kg/㎥ in the entire water column and 2.86$\times$l0$^{-4}$ kg/㎥ in the bottom layer, respectively.pectively.
황해, 동중국 해역에서 서식하는 어업생물 자원의 평가 및 그 관리에 필요한 기초 자료를 수집하기 위한 시도로서, 1997 년도에 부경대학교와 일본 장기대학이 공동으로 실시한 어업자원조사중에서 주로 계량어군탐지기를 이용하여 수집한 자료를 분석, 고찰한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1 황해, 동중국해에 설정한 9개의 조사정점에서 저층트롤에 의한 어획량은 7.7~182.48 kg/hour이었고, 그때 어획된 어종수는 7~34 종이었다. 2. 1997년 5월에 동중국해에 있어서의 어군의 분포는 황해 중부의 저층 냉수역과 동중국해 중앙해역의 저층 고온수역, 또 쿠로시오계의 난류와 황해 냉수 및 대륙 연안수의 사이에 형성된 제주도 남부의 전선역에서 그 어군도가 매우 높았다. 3. 황해, 동중국해의 조사대상해역의 전수층부와 저층부에 대한 어군의 평균 체적산란강도는 각각 -74.57 ㏈, -68.24 ㏈로서 저층부가 전수층부에 비해 5.67 ㏈ 더 높았다. 4. 본 연구의 조사대상해역에 대한 어군의 분포밀도를 추정한 결과, 전수층에 대해서는 6.65$\times$$10^{-5}$ kg/㎥이었고, 저층부에 있어서는 2.86$\times$$10^{-4}$ kg/㎥이었다.