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The Ecological Society of Korea (한국생태학회)
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Use of the cast net for monitoring fish status in reservoirs distributed in the Korean peninsula

  • Yoon, Ju-Duk (Biological Resource Center, Kongju National University) ;
  • Kim, Jeong-Hui (Department of Biology Education, Kongju National University) ;
  • Lee, Hae-Jin (Nakdong River Environmental Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research) ;
  • Jang, Min-Ho (Department of Biology Education, Kongju National University)
  • Received : 2015.01.13
  • Accepted : 2015.04.28
  • Published : 2015.08.28
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Abstract

Reservoirs consist of two different environments, the littoral and the pelagic zone, and different fishing gear is commonly used in each zone-gill nets in the pelagic zone and electrofishing in the littoral zone. However, an active fishing gear, the cast net, is normally used instead of electrofishing for scientific studies in South Korea. In order to estimate cast net effectiveness for determining fish status in reservoirs, the study was conducted at 15 reservoirs with two different fishing gears: a cast net in the littoral zone and gill nets in the pelagic zone. When combining catches of both gears, species richness increased substantially compared to using one gear only. There was a size difference in fish caught by each net, and small fish were predominantly caught with the cast net due to its small mesh size (7 mm). The combined length of six species, used for length-weight relationship analysis, collected with the cast net was smaller than that collected with gill nets (independent t-test, P < 0.05). In this study, cast net sampling provided sufficient data for the littoral zone, but not enough to identify the overall fish assemblage in studied reservoirs. Utilization of only one gear can therefore lead to substantial underestimation of fish status, and a combination of both gears is recommended for determining more reliable estimates of fish status in reservoirs.

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