본 연구에서는 저자 등이 개발한 인공해저를 대상으로 어류의 위집행동 및 분포구조를 잠수관찰 및 어군탐지기를 이용하여 조사하였다. 인공해저와 같은 해양구조물 주변에서의 군집구조를 파악하는 것은 인공어초의 위집기구 연구에 중요한 사항이다. 연구에서 얻어진 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 잠수관찰에 의하면 어류의 분포층은 인공해저의 구조와 밀접한 관계를 가지고 있어, 표층 해저면에서는 회유성 어종인 고등어, 전갱이가 군을 형성하여 일시적으로 위집되었다. 한편, 중층 시험 어초 부근에는 정착성 어종인 돌돔, 붉바리, 돔감펭볼락 등이 군을 형성 장시간 체류하는 것이 관찰되어, 이들 어류는 인공어초를 먹이장소 또는 휴식공간으로 긴밀하게 이용하고 있다고 판단되었다. 2. 어군탐지기를 사용하여 인공해저 주변을 24시간 항주조사 한 결과, 어류의 행동생태는 일출몰 시각의 전후로 변화하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 주간에 군을 형성하여 인공해저의 중.저층 부근에서 유영하던 어군에코는 야간에는 분산형태로 표층부근에 폭 넓게 산재하고 있어, 어군의 일주행동이 분명하게 밝혀졌다.

By using the offshore type submersible platform, Artificial sea floor anchored at a depth of forty meters several experimental studies have been conducted successfully during 1996. The facility consists of an artificial sea floor that floats at 7 meters below the surface, a machinery hut that projects above the surface at the center of the structure and a balance weight beneath the structure. The facility can be surfaced easily by using a water discharging pump in the water tank which is located at the center of it. To find out the behavioral character and the gathering factor of fishes around the artificial sea floor, investigations were carried out during the daytime and nighttime by direct observation and by echo-sounder. Around the testing reefs and artificial sea floor, six kinds of fishes were found by diving observation and the dominants were Scomber japonicus, Sebastes thompsoni and Oplegnathus fascitus. As Scomber japonicus was distributed around the artificial sea floor in dense small school, they were not seen elsewhere in the survey area. The artificial sea floor was concluded to act as a schooling ground far Scomber japonicus, Sebastes thompsoni and Oplegnathus fascitus. were close to the testing reefs(within 10m) in the daytime, and were thought to settle on the testing reefs at nighttime, To examine the distribution of 7shes around the artificial sea floor, an acoustic survey over a 1×1km area, 0-50m in depth during the all day. Around the artificial sea floor many thin scattering fish echo(TS-54.5~ -51.5dB) and dense fish echo(TS-41~-38dB) were mainly distributed. Many scattering fish echoes, which were thought to be a mixture of small squid, pelegic crustacea and ethers, were distributed over the whole survey area. A dense fish school stayed beneath the artificial sea floor for a short duration. These phenomena were concluded to show an attraction and detention function of the artificial sea floor.

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