• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.1755-1763
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• 2015

The objective of this study is to empirically analyze the relationship between sea temperature and jellyfish blooms. Ever since the 2000s, jellyfish population has been dramatically increased, which brought negative influence on the national health and the fisheries activities. Jellyfish blooms have been recognized as an effect of climate change, but there has been no empirical evidence to support such relationship. In this paper, the relationship between sea temperature and jellyfish blooms has been analyzed by using the regional jellyfish monitoring data and coastal stationary observing data of National Institute of Fisheries Science. Since the dependant variable carries left censoring issues, we used the panel tobit model. Our results indicate that there are statistically significant positive relationship between sea temperature and jellyfish blooms.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2012

기후변화, 수산자원 남획, 연안 간척 및 방조제 건설 등으로 인한 해양환경 변화는 해파리의 잦은 출현과 대량발생을 유발하고 있으며, 결과적으로 해양생태계 파괴, 수산업붕괴, 행락객 해파리 쏘임사고 발생 등 국가적 규모의 사회경제문제를 야기시키고 있다. 해파리로 인한 피해를 경험한 다수의 국가들은 해파리를 관리하기 위한 방법을 마련하는데 많은 투자를 하고 있을 뿐만 아니라, 더 나아가 해파리를 이용할 수 있는 방법을 모색하고 있다. 우리나라에서는 현재 해파리 대량발생을 막기 위한 생리 생태 연구와 해파리 구제를 중심으로 연구가 진행 중에 있다. 유럽 연합은 해파리 대량발생의 원인과 조절, 통합관리를 위한 연구를 수행중이며, 미국은 한 부처를 지정하여 수산자원 보전 및 보호를 목적으로 해파리를 관리하고 있다. 일본은 부처 및 연구기관의 지정으로 짧은 시간에 많은 분야에서 괄목할만한 성과를 거두었으며, 특히 해파리 이동과 대량발생 예측에 관하여 심도 있는 연구를 진행하고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 국내외 연구방향을 비교하여 1) 통합연구시스템의 설치와 관리방안 마련, 2) 해파리에 대한 접근방식의 개선, 3) 적극적인 교육과 정보의 제공이라는 세 가지 정책 방향을 제시하였다. 본 연구 결과는 해파리뿐만 아니라 기타 유해해양생물의 정책적 대처 방안에도 기본적으로 필요한 대안이 될 수 있을 것으로 기대해 본다.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.587-596
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• 2014

The study aims at suggesting the direction of industrial utilization for harmful jellyfish which appears in large quantities in the Korean coastal areas. If the technology of industrial utilization for the jellyfish is developed, it will be possible to grow the industry to the export industry due to the mass appearance of jellyfish in Korean coastal areas. The industrial utilization of jellyfish should follow the direction of minimizing the damage by the jellyfish blooms and maximizing the resource recycling of the jellyfish. Therefore, Korea needs construction of infrastructure for the industrialization and promotion of R&D in order to activate the industrial utilization. Finally, the study suggested issues and tasks for promoting the industrial utilization of jellyfish as follows. First, Korea should stabilize the high quality raw material supply system. Second, mass processing technology should be developed for the industrial utilization of the jellyfish. Third, research and manual development should follow for the preparation of turning the jellyfish to the food. Fourth, extraction technology of useful non-food substance such as extracting collagen from jellyfish should be developed and accelerate the industrial utilization of non-food area.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.113-122
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• 2010

Understanding the abundance and distribution of massive jellyfish is necessary to forecast where or when their blooms will happen. The acoustic technique is one of the most useful methods of obtaining information if the acoustic characteristics of the targets are known. This study was conducted to determine the acoustic target strength (TS, dB) of two jellyfish species, Aurelia aurita and Cyanea nozakii, in the southern coast of Korea. For the ex situ measurements, 120, 200, and 420 kHz split beam transducers were used, and jellyfish with various bell lengths were arranged to prepare multiple jellyfish. Under 2 vertical individuals, the mean TS for multiple A. aurita at 120, 200, and 420 kHz was -72.7, -71.7, and -68.2 dB, respectively. In the case of 5 vertical individuals, the mean TS of the species was -71.3, -68.2, and -62.0 dB. Finally, the mean TS of C. nozakii at 120, 200, and 200 kHz was -62.0, -60.3, and -58.2 dB under 2 individuals and -58.1, -57.4, and -54.0 dB under 4 individuals, respectively. For both species, higher numbers of jellyfish resulted in a higher TS. In addition, higher frequencies were associated with a higher TS for the same jellyfish. These TS results for two species can be used as essential data for the acoustic detection of jellyfish in an open ocean or coastal area.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.128-135
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• 2015

The worldwide abundance of various jellyfish appears to have increased in coastal ecosystems in recent years. The enormous jellyfish blooms cause a variety of problems for the local ecology, fisheries, and aquatic-sports in coastal locations. In this study, jellyfish sting protection net was installed to ensure the safety and reduction of the inflow into the Haeundae beach. In order to confirm the stability of the protection net, the tension for protection net was measured from variation of current speed. The periods for maximum tension were observed correspond to the periods of maximum current speed. The maximum tension for protection net was measured up to 4,100 kg. From field evaluations, the jellyfish sting protection net has demonstrated to stability from the current and tide in the Haeundae beach.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.336-342
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• 2014

Asexual benthic polyp reproduction plays a major role in the jellyfish bloom. Recent studies found that temperature is the most important factor to regulate the budding rate of the polyps. We established a simple dynamic model to count the number of polyps depending on the variation of temperature with two data sets from different places. The population of polyps was counted through the budding rate and the number of budding times by Fibonacci sequence. It is assumed that the budding rate depends on the temperature only. The budding rate of the asexual reproduction shows very sensitive to the distribution of the seawater temperature. The model was tested to the temperature data of Ansan located in the west sea of Korea. The results indicate that this model can be useful to predict the blooms of Aurelia aurita polyps, which may have considerable influence on the bloom of medusa. The shape of temperature curve plays a key role in the predicting the bloom of Aurelia aurita polyps.