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http://dx.doi.org/10.5657/kfas.2005.38.1.029

Distribution of Fish Larvae and Juveniles in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea in Spring during 1994-1997  

KIM Jin Koo (South Sea Fisheries Research Institute, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute)
KANG Chung Bae (Department of Marine Biology, Pukyong National University)
AHN Geon (Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary)
OKI Daiju (Mie Prefectural Science and Technology Promotion Center)
KIM Yong Uk (Department of Marine Biology, Pukyong National University)
TABETA Osame (Faculty of fisheries, Nagasaki University)
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Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences / v.38, no.1, 2005 , pp. 29-38 More about this Journal
Abstract
The distributions of fish larvae and juveniles from the East China Sea, Yellow Sea and near Tsushima Island were investigated in Spring using the Maruchi (1994-1995) and Unagi (1996-1997) nets. A total of 94 species of fish larvae and juveniles belonging to 49 families under 17 orders were identified, of which Engraulis japonicus was dominant in every year except 1995 where Trachurus japonicus was dominant. Cluster analysis based on abundance and species composition by sampling stations (St.) revealed that the similar stations formed an arcuate group from Tsushima Island to southern Jeju Island in 1994, and from the Yellow Sea to southern Jeju Island in 1996. We concluded that these patterns resulted from the influence of the Tsushima Current prevailing in the east, and the Chinese Continental Waters and/or Hwanghae Cold Waters prevailing in the west, with Jeju Island exerting an influence in the centre. The diversity and composition of St. 97-3 and St. 97-5, both located where the Tsushima Current splits from the Kuroshio Current, was greatly different despite their close proximity. However, the former is located on the continental shelf, with the latter on the continental slope. This suggested that both topography and the Kuroshio Current have the most influence on the distribution of fish larvae and juveniles in this region. Furthermore, the weak Hwanghae Cold Waters of 1997 may have also limited the mixing of fish larvae and juveniles between the two stations.
Keywords
Larvae; Juveniles; East China Sea; Yellow Sea; Community structure;
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