Changes in fish diversity and community structure in the central and southern Yellow Sea from 2003 to 2015 -- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2018,36(3):805-817

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	CHEN Yunlong, SHAN Xiujuan, JIN Xianshi, JOHANNESSEN Arne, YANG Tao, DAI Fangqun. Changes in fish diversity and community structure in the central and southern Yellow Sea from 2003 to 2015[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(3): 805-817

Changes in fish diversity and community structure in the central and southern Yellow Sea from 2003 to 2015

CHEN Yunlong^1,3,4, SHAN Xiujuan^2,3, JIN Xianshi^2,3, JOHANNESSEN Arne⁵, YANG Tao³, DAI Fangqun³

1 Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China;
2 Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China;
3 Key Laboratory of Sustainable Development of Marine Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fishery Resources and Ecological Environment, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China;
4 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
5 Department of Biology, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, 5006 Bergen, Norway

Abstract:

The central and southern Yellow Sea is an important overwintering ground for many fish species in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea. For better understanding the status of the fish community after years of heavy exploitation, variations in fish community structure and diversity were analyzed using data from bottom trawls during 2003-2015. Five fish assemblage indices all showed fluctuations without clear trends from 2003 to 2015, yet there were strong positive and significant correlations (P<0.05) among them. The top-five dominant species accounted for a high weight percentage (49.7%-82.1%) in the annual fish catch. Multivariate analysis showed that two year groups could be pooled for the fish community:Group I consisted of the years 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2015, while Group Ⅱ consisted of the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2014; the groups aggregated with 63.71% similarity, indicating a high level of similarity among all years. The multivariate dispersion values were 1.455 and 0.818 for Groups I and Ⅱ, respectively, indicating greater variances in fish assemblage structure in Group I than that in Group Ⅱ. Similarity of percentage analysis demonstrated that the average similarities for Group I and Group Ⅱ were 71.58% and 67.51%, respectively. Size-spectra analysis revealed no consistent trend in the intercept and slope (P>0.05); there were also no significant differences between the slope of the size-spectra and fishing effort. The catch per unit effort and mean individual weight analyses of the whole fish assemblage both showed a significantly decreasing trend over time. Overall, the results showed that the fish community structure in the central and southern Yellow Sea was relatively stable from 2003 to 2015 and the study could be used as a reference for supporting ecosystem-based fishery management.

Key words: dominant species|fish community structure|multivariate analysis|trawl data

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