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Distribution of Bottom Trawling Effort in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea

文献类型: 外文期刊

作者: Zhang, Shengmao 1 ; Jin, Shaofei 2 ; Zhang, Heng 1 ; Fan, Wei 1 ; Tang, Fenghua 1 ; Yang, Shenglong 1 ;

作者机构: 1.Chinese Acad Fishery Sci, East China Sea Fisheries Res Inst, Key Lab East China Sea & Ocean Fishery Resources, Minist Agr, Shanghai, Peoples R China

2.Chinese Acad Sci, Northeast Inst Geog & Agroecol, Key Lab Wetland Ecol & Environm, Changchun, Peoples R China

3.East China Normal Univ, Minist Educ, Key Lab Geog Informat Sci, Shanghai, Peoples R China

期刊名称:PLOS ONE ( 影响因子:3.24; 五年影响因子:3.788 )

ISSN: 1932-6203

年卷期: 2016 年 11 卷 11 期

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收录情况: SCI

摘要: Bottom trawling is one of the most efficient fishing activities, but serious and persistent ecological issues have been observed by fishers, scientists and fishery managers. Although China has applied the Beidou fishing vessel position monitoring system (VMS) to manage trawlers since 2006, little is known regarding the impacts of trawling on the sea bottom environments. In this study, continuous VMS data of the 1403 single-rig otter trawlers registered in the Xiangshan Port, 3.9% of the total trawlers in China, were used to map the trawling effort in 2013. We used the accumulated distance (AD), accumulated power distance (APD), and trawling intensity as indexes to express the trawling efforts in the Yellow Sea (YS) and East China Sea (ECS). Our results show that all three indexes had similar patterns in the YS and ECS, and indicated a higher fishing effort of fishing grounds that were near the port. On average, the seabed was trawled 0.73 times in 2013 over the entire fishing region, and 51.38% of the total fishing grounds were with no fishing activities. Because of VMS data from only a small proportion of Chinese trawlers was calculated fishing intensity, more VMS data is required to illustrate the overall trawling effort in China seas. Our results enable fishery managers to identify the distribution of bottom trawling activities in the YS and ECS, and hence to make effective fishery policy.

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