The objectives of this study to determine seasonal changes in species composition and abundance of fish and decapod assemblage, and the relationships between environmental factors and their abundance in an eelgrass bed of Jindong Bay. A total of 26 fish species and 29 decapod species were collected by a small beam trawl from an eelgrass bed in Jindong Bay in 2002. The dominant fish species were Hexagrammos otakii, Pholis neulosa and P. fangi and these accounted for 48.4 % in the total number of individuals. Dominant decapod taxa were Palaemon macrodactylus, Charybdis japonica, Pagurus minutus and C. bimaculata. These were primarily small species or early juveniles of larger species. Species composition and abundance varied greatly showing a peak in the number of individuals in April and May, and peak biomass in fish in July and decapods in August. Catch rate was low in winter months both in fish and in decapod. Seasonal changes in the abundance of fishes and decapods corresponded with eelgrass biomass and abundance of food organisms indirectly.

2011년 6월부터 10월까지 충남 가야산의 현존식생을 대상으로 식물사회학적 군집분석을 수행하였다. 가야산 천연림의 상관우점종은 신갈나무군락과 소나무군락, 소사나무군락, 떡갈나무군락, 굴참나무군락이 전체적으로 우점하고 있었고, 인공식재림의 상관우점종은 잣나무림과 리기다소나무림이 나타났다. 집괴분석에 의한 식생유형은 능선부의 신갈나무군락유형, 남사면의 소나무군락유형, 산복부의 소사나무군락유형, 계곡림유형의 총 4개 유형으로 구분되었으며, 종다양도 지수를 보면 식생단위 4의 종다양도 지수가 0.6976으로 가장 낮았으며, 식생단위 2의 종다양도 지수가 1.1256으로 가장 높게 나타났다. 우점도는 모든 식생단위에서 0.1~0.2인 0.3 이하로, 다수의 종이 우점하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 4개로 구분된 식생유형 중 계곡림유형은 다른 식생유형보다 출현종이 많은 것으로 나타났으며, 이는 계곡림의 특성으로 판단된다.

The study aims at analyzing a species composition of the fish live in bottom of the coastal waters off Geomun island, Korea. To reach the goal of the study, a species composition and it’s monthly fluctuation, a monthly fluctuation of the dominant species and it’s appearance type was analyzed the fishes caught by the bottom trawl. The result obtained can be summerrized as follows; Fish caught in this area composes 14 orders, 34 families, and 47 species. The largest number of fish species was Perciformes (15 families and 19 species). The most dominant species in an number of fish was jhon dory, Zeus faber which was occupied at 22.5% from the whole number, the second most dominant species was horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus which was occupied at 21.2%. Four groups were categorized based on appearance time period.

To compare the catches made using gillnets, trammel nets, and gillnets with supporting lines, several experiments were conducted with commercial vessels near Uljin and Pohang in Eastern Korea between July 2010 and May 2011. Two sets of 13 different nets were used, including 5 panels of gillnets and trammel nets each with stretched mesh sizes of 7.6, 9.1, 10.6, 12.1, and 13.6 cm and 3 panels of gillnets with a mesh size of 9.1 cm with supporting lines with different line spacing. The outer (stretched) mesh size of the trammel nets measured 51.5 cm. The target fishes of the fishing nets were various types of flounders. The catch rate of flounders was 50.7% of the total catch in weight. The total catch for all nets was 443.8 kg. The predominant species was pointhead flounder (Cleisthenes pinetorum). The total catch by trammel nets was 1.4 times that of the comparable gillnets. But more pointhead flounder were caught by gillnets than by trammel nets, though there was no significant difference. Fishermen catching the pointhead flounder in Korea said that there was no need to use trammel net to catch it; this was an unexpected finding compared to the findings of other flounder fisheries. The amounts of roughscale sole, brown sole, and blackfin flounder caught by trammel nets were greater than those caught by gillnets. The mean lengths (standard deviation) of blackfin flounder, pointhead flounder, brown sole, and roughscale sole were 21.0 (4.57), 22.9 (3.40), 24.7 (4.90), and 28.3 (5.43) cm, respectively; there were significant differences in mean length (p < 0.00001). Therefore, in order to catch flounder efficiently, the fishing nets and mesh size should be chosen according to the target species. One advantage of using supporting lines is that it prevents breakage by strengthening the material especially when utilized on a rough bottom. Catch by using gillnet with supporting lines was not greater than that by using trammel net for the conservation of fisheries resources.

인공용승류 해역에서 난자치어의 종조성 및 시공간 변동을 파악하기 위하여 2012년 6월 13일, 9월 21일 및 25일에 난자치어 네트를 이용하여 조사하였다. 조사기간 동안 출현한 어란은 4,849 ind./1,000 m3, 자치어는 641 ind./1,000 m3이였다. 출현한 어란 중 가장 우점한 종은 멸치(Engraulis japonicus)로써 총 출현량의 약 57.5 %를 차지하였다. 그 외 미동정(Unidentified) 어란 Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ이 출현하였다. 자치어는 청베도라치(Pictiblennius yatabei)가 가장 우점하였으며, 그 다음으로 돛양태류(Repomucenus sp.A, sp.B), 고등어(Scomber japonicus), 멸치(Engraulis japonicus), 전어(Konosirus punctatus) 등의 순으로 나타났다. 그리고 미동정(Unidentified) 자치어 Ⅰ, Ⅱ가 출현하였다. 대조구 해역에서는 어란은 멸치, 자치어는 돛양태류가 출현하였다. 시기별 변동에서는 어란 및 자치어 모두 7월에 가장 많았으며, 8월에 가장 낮았다. 정점별 변동에서는 인공용승이 일어나는 인근 정점인 2, 3번에서 어란 및 자치어의 출현량이 가장 많았다. 대조구 해역과의 비교하여 정점당 약 4배 이상 많은 어란 및 자치어가 출현하였다. 인공용승에 의한 영양염류 및 먹이생물의 증가로 인하여 어란 및 자치어의 출현량이 증가한 것으로 판단된다.

Species composition and seasonal variation of aquatic organism in the marine ranchig ground of Taean, Korea were investigated using shrimp beam trawl from January to December 2010. A total of 99 species, 5,355,816ind./km2 and 84,697kg/km2 of aquatic organism were collected. Among them, fish include 9 orders 33 families 54 species, crustaceans include 2 orders 15 families 30 species, cephalopods consist of 3 orders 4 families 5 species, gastropods include 2 orders 3 families 4 species, echinoidea sp. include 1 order 2 families 2 species, bivalves were composed of 2 orders 2 families 2 species, and holothuroids include 1 family 1 order. According to the dominants by month, Palaemon gravieri was dominant in January, Cynoglossus joyneri was dominant in February, March, and June, and Hexagrammos otakii was dominant, in July. And Oratosquilla oratoria was dominant echinoidea sp. was dominant in April, May, and August and in September, October, November, and December. Cluster analysis based on species composition of the 38 most common species showed that the species were separated into 5 different groups. Group A was composed of species which were abundant in spring and summer, group B was composed of year-round residents, and group C was composed of species which were abundant in autumn.

A two-year survey on the insect fauna of Dokdo located at the eastern end of Korean territory, was carried out from 2009 to 2010. A total of 11 Orders 65 Families 131 Genera 133 Species of insects was reported to exist in Dokdo by Park et al. (2012). This study was focused on the collection of small insects (under 1 mm in body length) in Dokdo. Form the collection, the comparison of the species composition to past records in Dokdo was carried out.

The investigation for species composition and catch in the Korean deep-water of the East Sea (also known as Sea of Japan) was carried out with trammel nets of 7 mesh sizes (6.1~24.2cm) offshore Donghae (2006) and Yangyang (2007) of Korea. The catches were 1,268kg and composed of 37 species between 200m and 1,200m in depth. The principal species caught were Taknka's snailfish, salmon snailfish, red snow crab, hunchback sculpin, snow crab, spinyhead sculpin, Tanaka's eelpout, Alaska cod and so on. Those were target fish for commercial value except salmon snailfish. The mesh sizes for the largest catch were 10.6cm and 15.2cm in the fishing ground of Donghae and Yangyang, respectively. The habitat of snow crab was shallower than that of red snow crab in both areas. Trammel net enabled to investigate fish in deep-water with small fishing vessel and rather cheap expenses in contrast to bottom trawl that required too much of it. With increasing inner mesh size of trammel net the mean size of some principal species such as Taknka's snailfish, spinyhead sculpin, hunchback sculpin, Pacific cod, snow crab, red snow crab and hybrid between snow crab and red snow crab tended to be large in certain range of mesh size.

한강 하구 해역에서 2010년 4월부터 2011년 11월까지 총 9회에 걸쳐 출현한 생물은 5 분류군 61과 126종이었다. 갑각류는 18과 34종, 두족류는 3과 5종, 어류는 35과 79종으로 분류되었으며, 그 외 종단위로 분류되지 않은 자포동물류인 해파리류와 포유류에 속하는 상괭이가 출현하였다. 한강 하구 해역의 출현종의 대부분은 어류와 갑각류로 구성되었다. 연구기간동안 주된 우점 종은 그라비새우, 꽃게, 밀새우, 갯가재 등이었으며, 어류로는 웅어와 싱어이었다. 우점한 6종에 대한 체장조성 및 평균체장을 살펴보면, 하나 이상의 체장모드를 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 하나 이상의 모드를 가지는 것은 한강 해역에 출현하는 종들이 일정시기 또는 일생동안 한강 하구 해역에서 서식하며, 산란장 또는 성육장으로 이용하고 있다는 것을 반영한다. 한강 하구 해역중 강과 가장 가까운 정점인 더리미에서는 민물어류가 출현하였으며, 홍수 등 담수의 대량 방류 시기와 조사 시기가 일치하는 경우에 민물어류가 하구 해역에서 채집되는 것으로 생각된다. 연도별 정점별 종조성을 이용하여 주성분분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 종조성은 조사시기별 정점별 차이를 나타내었다.

진해만과 진주만에서 새우조망을 이용하여 2010년 4월부터 11월까지 총 4회의 어업조사가 이루어졌다. 조사기간 동안, 진해만에서는 총 116종이 어획되었고, 그 중 어류가 62종, 갑각류가 24종을 차지하였다. 진주만에서는 총 105종이 분류되었고, 그 중 어류가 56종, 갑각류가 31종 조사되었다. 진해만에서는 등가시치, 마루자주새우, 갯가재가 우점하였고, 진주만에서는 마루자주새우, 주둥치, 두점박이민꽃게 순으로 우점하였다. SOM을 이용한 군집유형화 결과, 진해만과 진주만의 군집구성이 계절에 따라 다르게 나타났다. 그룹1에 묶여진 진주만 조사정점들은 민새우, 대하 등 갑각류와 주둥치 쥐노래미 등의 어류가 우점하였다. 4월 조사는 해역에 상관없이 모든 정점이 그룹2에 묶였는데 마루자주새우, 검은띠불가사리, 꼼치 등의 밀도가 높았다. 그룹3에 묶여진 진주만의 6월 조사정점들은 두점박이민꽃게를 포함한 다양한 갑각류와 도다리, 돛양태, 쉬쉬망둑 등의 다양한 어류가 우점하였다. 그룹4에 묶인 진해만의 6월~11월 조사정점에서는 등가시치, 흰베도라치 등의 어류가 우점하였다. 우점종인 마루자주새우는 6월까지 포란개체가 많이 어획되었고, 등가시치와 주둥치는 조사기간 동안 대부분 소형개체가 출현하였다. 이는 본 해역이 수산생물의 산란장 및 성육장으로 중요한 역할을 함을 알 수 있다.

Seasonal variation in species composition and abundance of fish assemblage in the north coast (NC: Ayajin) and central coast (CC: Hupo) of the East Sea were calculated using samples collected by trammel net during 2011-2012. A total of 20 species from NC and 17 species from CC were collected. Of the fishes collected, the dominant fish species were Glyptocephalus stelleri and Careproctus rastrinus in the NC, and Dasycottus setiger and G. stelleri in the CC. These 2 fishes accounted for 71.7% and 81.0% of the total number of individuals collected in the NC and CC, respectively. The number of fish species, number of individuals, biomass and species diversity indices fluctuated with the seasons. The cluster analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS) based on Bray-Curtis similarity revealed that the fish assemblages classified into north and central groups. Analysis of similarity percentages of species contributions (SIMPER) indicated that most individual of G. stelleri and Gadus macrocephalus contributed to north group, and D. setiger and G. stelleri in central group, whereas 15 species contributed to 90% of the dissimilarity.

Species composition and seasonal variation of aquatic organism in the coastal waters off Taean, Korea were investigated using catches by commercial fishing of the pot and gill net from April 2010 to January 2011. A total of 58 species, 10,602 individuals and 547,569g of aquatic organism were collected during the study. Aquatic organism were composed of 22 species of Pisces, 20 species of Crustacea, 8 species of Gastropoda, 3 species of Echinodea, 2 species of Cephalopoda and Bivalvia, and 1 species of Holothuroidea. 41 species in 9 orders and 22 families were collected by the pot, and 28 species in 15 orders and 22 families were collected by the gill net. Volutharpa ampullacea was the most dominant in the pot, while Okamejei kenojei was the most dominant in the gill net. These two species accounted for 73.9% in the number of individuals, and 64.4% in biomass. The number of species was high in spring in the pot, and autumn in the gill net. The number of individuals and biomass were highest in winter and summer respectively in the pot, and summer in the gill net. The number of species of the consignment quantity caught by commercial fishery of the pot and gill net in Mohang was 12 and 14 respectively. Cluster analysis based on species composition of the 18 most common species showed that the species were separated into 3 different group. Group A was composed of species which were abundant in spring, group B was composed of species which were abundant in summer and autumn, and group C was composed of year-round residents.

Species composition and abundance of larval fishes in the coastal waters off Gori in the southeastern Korea were investigated from January to December in 2006. During the study period, 32 larvae species belonging to 20 families were collected. The dominant species were Engraulis japonicius, Hexagrammos agrammus, Sillago japonicus, Acropoma japonicum, Apogon lineatus, and Konosirus punctatus. These six species accounted for 87.0% of the total number of individuals collected. The number of species, number of individuals, and species diversity indices fluctuated by season. The peak numbers of species and individuals occurred in July and May, respectively. Correlation analysis showed that monthly variations in water temperature and salinity could act as an indicators of seasonal variations in the larval fish community structure and abundance of the dominant species; in particular, the abundance of S. japonicus, A. japonicum, and A. lineatus were significantly corrected with the water temperature.

A preliminary study on species composition of a Korean purse seine catch landed at cannery was conducted in April 2011. In the cannery, all tuna catch are sliding through a sorting grid panel that filters and drops fish in the buckets by size class (above 9kg, 3.4-9kg, 1.8-3.4kg, 1.4-1.8kg and below 1.4kg). In cannery processing, species sorting was made for skipjack tuna and yellowfin tuna only from catches greater than 3.4kg during filtering but not for bigeye tuna because of difficulties in species identification between bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna under frozen state. As no species identification was carried out for catch groups less than 3.4kg in the cannery process, this study focused on sorting out skipjack tuna and yellowfin tuna from these groups and then identifying bigeye tuna from all size groups of yellowfin tuna. Using the mixture rate of species obtained from the samples taken, species composition of the landed catch was estimated. As results, cannery research showed 95% for skipjack tuna, 3% for yellowfin tuna and 2% for bigeye tuna in species composition, while vessel logbook data represented 96%, 3% and 1% for skipjack tuna, yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna, respectively. The proportion of bigeye tuna identified in the cannery was slightly higher than shown in logbook data by 1%.

The investigation for the catch and species composition in the deep sea of the East Sea was done to search marine organisms using some kinds of traps with small commercial fishing vessel near Goseong, Korea from 2008 to 2009. The experiments was carried out with some different traps at the depth of 200m, 400m, 700m and 1,000m. In 2008, the amount of catch with rectangular, cone and drum net traps was 91.4kg with twelve trips and the proportion of catch with rectangular and cone traps was high. Dominant species caught were Aniwan whelk (57%), snow crab (12%), hunchback sculpin (7%) and red snow crab (5%). The catch of Aniwan whelk was done well with rectangular and cone traps at the depth of 700-1,000m. Snow crab was mainly caught with rectangular and cone traps at the shallower depth of 200m, while red snow crab caught a lot with cone trap at the deeper depth of 700m. In 2009, the amount of catch with rectangular, cone and round traps was 92.4kg with nine trips. The proportion of catch with round trap was higher than that with cone trap. Dominant species caught were snow crab (67.1%), Aniwan whelk (14.8%) and northern shrimp (9.8%). Snow crab was caught well with round trap at the depth less than 400m.

Changes in insect communities are one of the best indicators of environmental changes. A survey was conducted using the Flight Interception Trap (FIT) method to check the changes of species composition and abundance of silphids at Mt. Sokrisan National Park from April to October in 2003 to 2007. A total of9,704 individuals of six silphid species were examined by FIT. Among them, Nicrophorus quadripunctatus was the most dominant species with 8,763 (90.3%) individuals. There were only 971 (9.7%) individuals of the other five species. The seasonal abundance of silphids peaked in July and August. The annual abundance has decreased gradually since 2004. Therefore, the changing patterns of species composition and abundance of silphids checked by long-term monitoring could be used as environmental indicators which indirectly show the environmental changes of Mt. Sokrisan National Park.

본 연구는 한국과 일본에 분포하는 산림군락의 분포와 종조성에 관한 비교연구이다. 식생조사 자료 1844를 이용하여 79개 산림군락을 식별하였으며, 54개 종군으로 구분되어 조사지역 간의 종조성의 유사성과 이질성을 나타냈다. 또한, 산림군락의 상관을 나타내는 구성종의 특징에 따라 14개 산림형으로 구분하였으며, 조사지역의 수직적 식생대는 유사한 특징을 나타내고 있지만 지역 간 서로 다른 우점종과 종조성 차이를 나타냈다. 저지대에 구실잣밤나무 또는 메밀잣밤 나무를 우점종으로 하는 모밀잣밤나무속-산림형(Castanopsis-Type)은 한반도 북부와 울릉도를 제외한 조사지역에 분포하고 있으며, 후박나무-산림형(Persea thunbergii-Type)은 조사지역의 전역에 넓게 분포하고 있다. 구릉대에 분포하는 일본젓나무-산림형(Abies firma-Type)의 상록수림은 큐슈북부와 쓰시마섬에 분포하고 있다. 산지대에 참나무속(활)-산림형(Quercus(D)-Type)과 너도밤나무속-산림형(Fagus-Type)으로 구성된 낙엽활엽수림은 조사지역에 넓게 분포하고 있지만, 신갈나무와 너도밤나무가 우점하는 산림군락은 한국에 분포하며, 물참나무, Fagus crenata(일명: 부나), Fagus japonica(일명: 이누부나)가 우점하는 산림군락은 일본에 분포하고 있다. 아고산대에서는 전나무속-참나무속(활)-산림형(Abies-Quercus(D)-Type), 구상나무-산림형(Abies koreana-Type), 눈잣나무-산림형(Pinus pumila-Type)이 한반도와 제주도에 분포하고, 주목-산림형(Taxus cuspidata var. nana-Type), Abies mariesii-Type(일명: 아오모리토도마츠-산림형), 눈잣나무-산림형(Pinus pumila-Type)은 일본 중부지역에 분포하고 있다. DCA 분석결과, 제1축에 대하여 낮은 수치에서부터 상록활엽수림, 낙엽활엽수림, 상록침엽수림이 배치되었다. 또한, 지역적으로는 제1축의 낮은 수치에서 부터 일본 산림형, 제주도 산림형, 한반도 산림형이 순차적으로 배치되었다. 기후요인 중 온량지수와 연교차는 제1축에 대하여 높은 상관관계를 나타내며, 해양성 기후에서 대륙성 기후를 반영하고 있음을 시사하고 있다. 지리적으로 가깝고 온난한 저해발, 저위도 지역에 분포하는 산림형일수록 산림군락간의 종조성적 유사성이 크며, 이에 반하여 지리적으로 격리되어 있으며, 고위도, 고해발지역에 분포하는 산림형일수록 산림군락간의 종조성의 차이가 뚜렷하고 산림군락의 종조성적 독립성이 강하였다. 이러한 형성요인은 오랫동안의 각 지역의 지사적(地史的)인 식물상의 구성적 특성을 반영하고 있다.

This study was investigated seasonal variation and species composition of fish species at artificial reefs (octangle three-stage compartment type and dice type)and natural rock in the Shinyang-Ri coastal waters off Jeju Island with visual census method in January 2009, April 2009, July 2009, September 2009, December 2009, March 2010, June 2010, and September 2010. A total of 44 fish species was occurred, and the dominant fish species were Apogon semilineatus, Chromis notata, Trachurus japonicus, Sebastes thompsoni and Apogon doederleini. The number of individuals of fishes was higher at April 2009 and March 2010, however, lower at June 2010 and September 2010. The number of fish speices was higher at artificial reefs than those of at natural rock. Apogon semilineatus was dominant at octangle three-stage compartment type and the dice type artificial reefs, whereas Chromis notata was for natural rock. These results indicated that artificial reefs were good habitats for a variety of fish species in the Shinyang-Ri coastal waters off Jeju Island.