Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (한국수산과학회지)

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Distribution of Whales and Dolphins in Korean Waters Based on a Sighting Survey from 2000 to 2010

목시조사(2000-2010)에 의한 한국 연안 고래류의 종류 및 분포

  • Sohn, Hawsun (Cetacean Research Institute, National Fisheries Research & Development Institute) ;
  • Park, Kyum Joon (Cetacean Research Institute, National Fisheries Research & Development Institute) ;
  • An, Yong Rock (Cetacean Research Institute, National Fisheries Research & Development Institute) ;
  • Choi, Seok Gwan (Fisheries Resources Management Division, National Fisheries Research & Development Institute) ;
  • Kim, Zang Geun (Fisheries Resources Management Division, National Fisheries Research & Development Institute) ;
  • Kim, Hyun Woo (Cetacean Research Institute, National Fisheries Research & Development Institute) ;
  • An, Du Hae (Cetacean Research Institute, National Fisheries Research & Development Institute) ;
  • Lee, Young Ran (Cetacean Research Institute, National Fisheries Research & Development Institute) ;
  • Park, Tae-Geon (Cetacean Research Institute, National Fisheries Research & Development Institute)
  • 손호선 (국립수산과학원 고래연구소) ;
  • 박겸준 (국립수산과학원 고래연구소) ;
  • 안용락 (국립수산과학원 고래연구소) ;
  • 최석관 (국립수산과학원 자원관리과) ;
  • 김장근 (국립수산과학원 자원관리과) ;
  • 김현우 (국립수산과학원 고래연구소) ;
  • 안두해 (국립수산과학원 고래연구소) ;
  • 이영란 (국립수산과학원 고래연구소) ;
  • 박태건 (국립수산과학원 고래연구소)
  • Received : 2012.01.03
  • Accepted : 2012.09.14
  • Published : 2012.10.31
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Abstract

In the late 1970s, the National Fisheries Research & Development Institute (NFRDI) started cetacean research to submit the Korean whale catch record to the International Whaling Commission. This continued until the moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. The NFRDI resumed cetacean research with a pilot whale sighting survey in 1999. Subsequently, the NFRDI has conducted 53 cetacean sighting surveys within the Korean exclusive economic zone between 2000 and 2010. The surveys took a total of 760 days and cruising for 23,866 nautical miles. The finless porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis was sighted most frequently (735 times), followed by the minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata (396 times), the long-beaked common dolphin Delphinus capensis (102 times), and the Pacific white-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus obliquidens (27 times). Minke whales were distributed in the Yellow Sea and coastal area of the East Sea from spring to fall. Pacific white-sided dolphin sightings were restricted to the middle and upper coastal areas of the East Sea in summer. Common dolphins were sighted from east of the southern coast to the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula from spring to fall. Finless porpoise occurred in all Korean coastal areas, except the middle and upper eastern coast.

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