Integrated Ecosystem Assessments for Fisheries Management in the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the East/Japan Sea

• Other Authors: Lee, Sang Heon (Editor), Youn, Seok-Hyun (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; primary production; phytoplankton; Yellow Sea; East/Japan Sea; South Sea of Korea; diel vertical migration; sound scattering layer; spatial and regional distributions; Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water; sea lions; Dokdo; marine mammals; pinnipeds; northern East China Sea; Changjiang diluted water; phytoplankton community; chl-a size fraction; picophytoplankton; phosphate restriction; wild seahorse; H. haema; feeding habits; NGS analysis; Sargassum thunbergii; morphological variability; seaweed morphology; multiple environmental factors; intertidal zone; mesopelagic fish; mitochondrial DNA sequence; pelagic fish eggs; spawning; Trachipterus jacksonensis; Trachipterus trachypterus; Ulleung Basin; East China Sea; warm currents; copepods; indicators; spatiotemporal distribution; HPLC; diatoms; size fraction; phytoplankton size classes (PSCs); ocean color; deep neural network (DNN); western part of the East Sea; Kuroshio Current; East Korea Warm Current; Pacific decadal oscillation; food web; trophic dynamics; chlorophyll-a size fraction; n/a
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Marine environmental conditions are very distinct in the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the East/Japan Sea. Physico-chemical properties and subsequently biological characteristics are different among the three seas. During the recent decades, dramatic changes in physical structure and vertical distribution of chemical properties were reported in the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the East/Japan Sea. However, we do not know much about the current status of the marine ecosystems in these three distinct seas to date. Since 2018, the integrated ecosystem assessment for ecosystem-based fisheries management have been implemented in the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the East/Japan Sea by the National Institute of Fisheries Science, Korea. This special volume will provide basic information for the current status of the marine ecosystems and an important background for the future monitoring of marine ecosystem responses to ongoing climate changes in the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the East/Japan Sea.