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Seasonal Variation in Fish Species Composition in the Coastal Water of Samdong-myeon, Namhae, Korea  

Kim, Jun Sop (Ocean & Fisheries Science Institute)
Lee, Yong-Deuk (The Marine Bio-Education & Research Center, The Institute of Marine Industry, Gyeongsang National University)
Lee, Seung Hwan (Fisheries Resources Research Center, National Institute of Fisheries Science)
Park, Jun Su (The Marine Bio-Education & Research Center, The Institute of Marine Industry, Gyeongsang National University)
Gwak, Woo-Seok (The Marine Bio-Education & Research Center, The Institute of Marine Industry, Gyeongsang National University)
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Korean Journal of Ichthyology / v.30, no.1, 2018 , pp. 55-64 More about this Journal
Abstract
Fish assemblages in a sandy shore and an eelgrass bed were compared based on monthly samples in the southern coastal water of Korea. Samples were collected by a beam trawl in the sandy shore and a surf net in the eelgrass from March to February 2012. The common fish species were Syngnathus schlegeli, Pseudoblennius cottoides, Pholis nebulosa, Favonigobius gymnauchen, Gymnogobius heptacanthus, Pseudopleuronectes yokohamae, Takifugu niphobles. Among them S. schlegeli, Urocampus nanus, P. cottoides, P. nebulosa, T. niphobles were high abundance in the eelgrass bed than in the sandy shore, whereas Acanthogobius flavimanus, Acentrogobius pflaumi, F. gymnauchen, G. heptacanthus, P. yokohamae were high in the sandy shore. Aulichthys japonicus, Hippocampus coronatus, Sebastes inermis, Lateolabrax japonicus, Siganus fuscescens were found in the eelgrass bed, and Thryssa hamiltoni, Mugil cephalus, Inimicus japonicus, Platycephalus indicus, Hexagrammos otakii, Furcina ishikawae, Liparis tanakae, Repomucenus curvicornis, and Eutaeniichthys gilli were observed in the sandy shore. Species composition and abundance varied seasonally in two habitats; The number of species and abundance was high in August and September, while biomass was the highest in April and September. Fish numbers as well as biomass were lowest in February. Number of individuals and biomass of fish in the eelgrass bed were significantly higher than those of in the sandy shore. Some fish preferred to live in the eelgrass were collected in the sandy shore, while fish preferred to live in the sandy shore were rarely collected in the eelgrass.
Keywords
Eelgrass bed; sandy shore; species composition; coastal water;
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