• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.245-253
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• 2001

To investigate the community structures and the their seasonal variation of phytoplankton and zooplankton, a study was conducted at 6 selected stations during the period from April 1999 to October 2000 in the marine ranching ground off Tongyeong. One hundred ninety species of phytoplankton were identified, including 146 diatoms, 38 dinoflagellates, 4 silicoflagellates and 2 euglenophytes. Phytoplankton standing crops varied extensively by months and stations, ranging from $3.0{\times}10^4\;cells/l\;to\;1.0{\times}10^6\;cells/l.$. The dominant species varied from the vertical distribution as well as seasonal changes. In April and July 1999, Skeletonema costatum and Ceratium fusus were predominant in both the surface and the bottom water columns. Leptocylindrus danicus was the dominant species in April and June 2000, and Thalassiosira spp. were also predominant in bottom waters in June 2000. Pseudonitzschia pungens and Chaetoceros spp. were the dominant species at both surface and near bottom waters in August and October 2000, respectively. Zooplankton abundance was comparatively high in April and July in 1999, and April, June, and October in 2000, but extremely low in November 1999. The density of dominant zooplankton was higher in 2000 than in 1999. Copepods were the most predominant group except for July 1999 when the bivalve larvae showed extremely high abundance. Acartia omorii and Oithona similis were the dominant or subdominant copepod species mainly in April 2000, and June/July, while O. davisae and O. plumifera had peaks in August and October 2000. Corycaeus affinis and Paracalanus sp. also showed higher peaks in April and June (or July), even though they occurred in all sampling time. Centropages abdominalis occurred abundantly only in April 1999. Oikopleura dioica, a gelatinous zooplankton, was another important zooplankton, showing high density in all samples except in July 1999.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.24-30
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• 2007

We developed an ecosystem indicator (EI) for the coastal and offshore areas of Korean waters. One of the major scientific challenges of this undertaking was to translate broad policy statements for ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) into practical terms. Fish reproduction potential (FRP) was defined as an EI to describe the reproductive probability of adult fisheries resources in Korean waters. The FRP was estimated as the ratio of adult fish composition to total catch, catches (in metric tons) by species and by ecosystem, and fishery effort (in horse power per metric ton). The FRP indices of the East/japan Sea Ecosystem (EJSE), Yellow Sea Ecosystem (YSE), and East China Sea Ecosystem (ECSE) began to decrease after the mid-1980s, and the current indices have decreased further, at 0.63 (EJSE), 1.22 (YSE), and 0.68 (ECSE) index points compared to the indices of 1975, when similar catch amounts were recorded. Lower FRPs in the Korean marine ecosystems were the result of higher proportion of immature fisheries resources in the total catch. Because this kind of ecosystem-level indicator is thought to reflect scientific approaches to EBFM and to provide an important tool for assessing the current status of marine ecosystems with respect to both quantity and quality, more EIs should be developed for Korean waters.

• 한국해양학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.203-215
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• 1995

1983년 4월과 5월에 걸쳐 제주해협에서 부표와 해류계를 이용한 해류관측과 함께 2회에 걸쳐 수온-염분관측을 실시하였다. 관측자료로부터 고온, 고염인 흑조 의 한 지류가 제주도 서쪽을 돌아 제주해협으로 유입됨을 명확히 보였다. 제주도 서쪽을 우회하는 해류는 제주도 서쪽에서는 그 폭이 약 60 km이며 제주 해협내 에서는 20∼30 km 이내에 존재하여 제주도 서쪽에서는 5 cm/s 미만으로 유속이 작은 반면에 제주해협의 서쪽입구와 해협 내에서는 10 cm/s 이상의 큰 유속을 갖는다. 제주해협의 동쪽에는 역시 흑조로부터 기원된 대마난류의 영향이 인지 되었다. 난류수와 연안수 사이에 형성되는 수온, 염분전선의 변화는 제주 해협의 서쪽에서 황해연안수가 남하함을 제시하였다. 난류수역에서는 5월에 수온이 상승 한 반면에 다른 해역에서는 수온이 감소하였다. 5월에 제주해협 중앙부에서는 해 협의 서쪽으로부터 저온, 저염의 해수가 유입되어 4월에 비해 수온과 염분이 급격 히 감소하였다.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.46-54
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• 1996

한반도 서해 태안반도 연근 해역에서 춘계동안 부유물 함량분포경향을 분석 하여, 부유물질의 운반 양상을 해석하였다. 특히 비파괴 방식의 SPECTREX 분석 기기를 이용하여 부유물의 입도분포를 정밀 분석하였다. 연구해역의 수괴 특성은 강한 조석전선이 형성되어, 수직적으로 균질한 수괴의 연안역과 수온약층이 뚜렷한 외양역으로 구분되었다. 부유물 함량은 대체로 10 mg/l 이하로 낮지만, 연안역의 저층수와 외양역의 중층수에서는 혼탁한 수괴가 관측되었다. 부유물은 평균입도가 각각 5-6$\mu\textrm{m}$와 8-10$\mu\textrm{m}$에 해당하는 세립질 부유물과 조립질 부유물로 구분되며, 주로 쇄설성 성분이 우세한 것으로 해석되었다. 전반적으로 태안반도 연근해역에서는 강 한 조류에 의해 해저 퇴적물의 재부유작용이 우세하며, 세립 퇴적물의 집적이 제한 되는 것으로 해석된다. 또한 경기만의 초입에 해당하는 북부역으로부터 공급되는 쇄설성 부유 퇴적물이 수온약층의 중층수역을 따라 남쪽 또는 남서쪽 방향으로 우 세하게 운반되는 것으로 해석된다.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.211-215
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• 2003

A huge freshwater reservoir (ca. 12,000 ha) will be created when the construction of a 33­km dike on a huge mud flat of the Saemankeum areas is established. A large quantity of freshwater will emerge to the adjacent sea from the reservoir through two big gates. Marine organisms outside the dike are expected to frequently experience low salinity waters. To investigate the salinity effects on the dominant metazooplankton in the coastal waters off Saemankeum areas, we measured the survival (Survival 1H and Survival 24H) of 11 different taxa (the copepods Acartia omorii, A. pacifica, Calanus sinicus, Centropages abdominalis, Paracalanus indicus, Pseudodiaptomus inopinus, Tortanus forcipatus, and a hydromedusa, and barnacle nauplius, polychaeta larva, and a chaetognath Sagitta sp.) at salinities of 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 psu when the organisms were exposed for 1 and 24 h, respectively. Survival 1Hs of P. inopinus and barnacle nauplius were 100% between 5 and 35 psu, while they were 0% at salinities of 0 and 40 psu. Survival 1Hs of A. omorii and A. pacifica, P. indicus, T. forcipatus, and polychaeta larva were 100% at $salinities\;\geq\;10$ psu, while they were 0% at lower salinities. Survival 1Hs of a hydromedusa and Sagitta sp. were 100% at $salinities\;\geq\;15$ psu, while they were 0% at lower salinities. Survival 1H of C. abdominalis and C. sinicus was 100% at $salinities\;\geq\;20$ psu, while they were 0% at lower salinities. Survival 24Hs of A. omorii, A. pacifica, C. abdominalis, barnacle nauplius, and polychaeta larva were the same as Survival 1 Hs at the same salinity, while those of the other metazooplankton were lower than Survival 1Hs. The results of the present study suggest that low salinity water emerging from big gates may cause the death of the metazooplankton, but the salinities at which death of the metazooplankton occurs may differ by species.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.71-77
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• 2001

여수 연안 승망 어장의 주변 해역을 중심으로 조사한 해양 관측 자료와 현지에 조사한 어획량 등을 이용하여 여수 연안 승망 어장의 환경특성과 어획량 변동과의 관계를 분석 정리한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1) 승망 어장에서의 수온의 분포범위는 13.0-$25.^0\circ$C이고, 4월부터 상승하기 시작하여 8월에 최고 수온 $25.^0\circ$C을 나타내다가 9월부터 하강하기 시작했다. 2) 어장에서의 염분의 분포범위는 28.6-33.8$\textperthousand$이고, 4월과 5월에는 32.0$\textperthousand$이상의 염분수가 분포하며, 6월부터 하강하기 시작하여 8월에는 최저염분 28.6$\textperthousand$를 나타내다가 9월부터 다시 상승하기 시작한다. 3) 여수 연안 승망에 어획되는 주어종인 숭어의 어획량은 5월에 최대 어획을 나타내고 6월부터 감소하기 시작하여 11월에는 최소 어획을 나타냈다. 수온이 높아지기 시작한 시기인 5월의 수온이 15.0-16$25.^0\circ$C에서, 저염보다 고염분인 32.6-33.8$\textperthousand$에서 어획이 양호하게 이루어졌다.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.281-289
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• 2016

Spinyhead sculpin Dasycottus setiger, a species of cold water fish, is distributed along the eastern coastal waters of Korea. A series of fishing experiments was carried out in the waters near Uljin from June, 2002 to November, 2004, using the experimental monofilament gill nets of different mesh sizes (82.2, 89.4, 104.8, and 120.2 mm) to describe the selectivity of the gill net for the fish. The SELECT (Share Each Length's Catch Total) analysis with maximum likelihood method was applied to fit the different functional models (normal, lognormal, and bi-normal models) for selection curves to the catch data. The bi-normal model with the fixed relative fishing intensity was selected as the best-fit selection curve by AIC (Akaike's Information Criterion) comparison. For the best-fit selection curve, the optimum relative length (the ratio of fish total length to mesh size) with the maximum efficiency and the selection range ($R_{50%,large}-R_{50%,small}$) of 50% retention were obtained as 2.363 and 0.851, respectively. The ratios of body girth to mesh perimeter at 100% retention where the selection curve of each mesh size represented the optimum total length were calculated as the range of 0.86 ~ 0.87.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.125-131
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• 1996

In order to investigate the relation between the environmental properties and the catch fluctuation of set net fishing grounds located in the coastal waters of Yosu, oceanographic observations on the fishing grounds were carried out by the training ship ofYosu Fisheries University from January, 1990 to September, 1992, and the data obtained were compared with the catch data from the joint market ofYosu fisheries cooperative society from 1984 to 1993. The resuItes obtained are summerized as follows : 1. The ranges of water temperature and salinity in the fishing ground was 7.0 to $27^{\circ}C.$and 26.6 to 33.2${\textperthousand}$, and water temperature increased from March to August and decreased from September to February of following year. 2. The salinity in the fishing grounds was relatively high without significant changes from November to June of the following year. From July, however, the salinity decreased to continue a low value till September and then increased. The salinity in the fishing ground was dominated mainly by the precipitation and its variation was large at the north entrance of set net fishing ground, influenced greatly by the land waters from the river of Somjin, but small in the offshore of the fishing grounds. 3. The fishes caught by the set nets were arranged in order of catch as follows; Spanish mackerel> Horse mackerel > Sardine > Anchovy > Hair tail. The catches of Anchovy and Sardine were high in April to May and those of Hair tail in June to July, but Spanish mackerel and Horse mackerel were caught for whole period of fishing. Spanish mackerel was caught most in September and least in April and their means were largest in August and smallest in June. 4. The ranges of optimum water temperature for fishing by the set nets was 13.5 to $25^{\circ}C.$, and in the ranges the catches increased with increasing temperature. The ranges of optimum salinity for fishing varied between 25.0 and 32.0${\textperthousand}$.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.419-427
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• 2009

The Minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, is the smallest baleen whale in the suborder Mysticeti. Because this species inhabits coastal areas, it became a main target species of coastal small-type whaling in the North Atlantic and the Northwest Pacific Oceans, and the species' population size dramatically decreased because of over-exploitation. As a result, the International Whaling Commission declared a global moratorium on whaling and launched the development of a management procedure for protecting the whales. Morphological studies, whaling history analysis, and genetic studies conducted mainly by Japanese scientists showed the existence of one unique "E" stock that inhabits the waters around the Korean peninsula and mixes with the "O" stock in the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. We used the mitochondrial DNA control region polymorphism of 348 Minke whales bycaught or stranded in Korean waters from 30 October 1998 to 25 June 2005 to assess the whale population structure by year. The frequency of the 10 major haplotypes from the 40 identified haplotypes was not significantly different among groups, suggesting that a subpopulation was not present. A comparison of the genetic distances calculated with Tamura-Nei's method showed that the distances between groups were lower than those within groups, which suggests that there was no genetic difference in the Minke whale populations. The Fst comparison between groups and the phylogenetic tree constructed using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) and Neighbor Joining (NJ) method also detected no obvious sub-stock structure.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.686-694
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• 2003

Monthly fish samples were collected using bottom gill nets and analyzed to study species composition and seasonal variation of fish assemblages in the coastal waters off Gadeok-do, Korea in 1998. During the study period, a total of 49 fish species representing 30 families were collected. The fish assemblages predominantly consisted of Limanda yokohamae, which accounted for $53.3\%$ of the number of individuals and $42.2\%$ in the biomass. The fish species, which had over 100 individuals, included Cynoglossus abbreviatus, Ditrema temmincki, Hexagrammos otakii, and Stephanolepis cirrhifer. These four species accounted for $24.1\%$ of the number of individuals and $24.3\%$ of the biomass. More fish species were collected in May and June than in any other months. The number of individuals and the amount of biomass peaked in April and May and reached a low in August. While the predominance of L. yokohamae caused the lowest species diversity by number of individuals in April, the predominance of Platycephalus indicus caused the lowest species diversity by biomass in July. Although gill nets show a strong selectivity for the target species or for size, gill nets can be used as an alternative fishing gear to collect fish in waters with rough bottoms, like rocky reefs, where other kinds of fishing gear such as trawls can not be used.