• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.305-317
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• 2023

Ethiopia is branded as the Water Tower of Africa because of its abundant inland water bodies that may be used sustainably to boost the economy. This review article's goal is to examine the current status and future potential of Ethiopia's fisheries, with a special focus on reservoirs. There are 200 known fish species (194 native, 40 endemic, and 11 exotic) in in Ethiopia's inland water. Ethiopia's fish production has increased by a factor of more than five in the past three decades (3,500 tons in 1983 to 15,681 tons in 2000 and 18,058 tons in 2010). However, fish produced in reservoirs is too low (8,059 t/year). The current fish harvests from reservoirs are significantly below the predicted potential yield, accounting for only 35% of the calculated fish production capacity. In this review, 14 potential reserves were revealed. A total of 48 fish species have been reported in these, of which 26 species (or around 54%) are present in Alwero reservoir. 19 of the 48 species that have been officially recognized belong to the Cyprinidae family and made up nearly 40% of the fish population in Ethiopian reservoirs. There has been, however, a decline in the productivity of Ethiopia's reservoir fish. Hence, actively start fishing in the numerous reservoirs that have been neglected yet, link the potential of fisheries and the benefits of the fish farming supply chain, let's begin building several other reservoirs similar to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and beginning mechanized-based fish harvesting.

• 한국어류학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.139-155
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• 2024

한국산 중고기속(genus Sarcocheilichthys)에 속하는 중고기(S. nigripinnis morii) 8개 집단과 참중고기(S. variegatus wakiyae) 5개 집단의 미토콘드리아 DNA의 cytb 유전자를 이용하여 각 집단의 유전적 다양성 및 분자계통학적 유연관계를 검토하였다. 참중고기 집단이 중고기 집단보다 유전적 다양성이 높은 것으로 확인되었다. cytb 유전자를 기반으로 한 한국산 중 고기속 어류의 분자계통도상에서 참중고기의 영산강(YSR) 집단은 중고기의 탐진강(TJR), 영산강(YSR), 섬진강(SJR) 집단과 clade를 이루며 현재의 분류체계와 일치하지 않는 유전적 유역관계가 나타났다. 한편, 핵 DNA 분자계통도상에서는 참중고기와 중고기로 뚜렷하게 구분이 가능하여 미토콘드리아 및 핵 DNA가 분자계통도상에서 상충하는 mitonuclear 불일치 현상이 나타냈다. 중고기의 섬진강(SJR) 집단이 동진강(DJR) 집단에 이입되어 교배가 일어난 것으로 추정되는 유전자형이 확인되었다. 동해로 유입되는 하천 중 유일하게 형산강(HSR)에만 이입되어 서식하는 것으로 알려진 중고기 집단은 한강(HR) 집단으로부터 이입되어 형성된 집단으로 추정되었지만, 고유한 유전적 그룹을 나타내는 유전자형도 확인되었다. 중고기의 한강(HR), 금강(GR), 만경강(MGR) 집단은 압록강 이북에 분포하는 북방중고기(S. czerskii), S. soldatovi와 유전적으로 동일 집단을 형성하였으며, 이에 다양한 표본을 확보하여 형태학적 및 분자계통학적 연구를 통한 분류학적 재검토가 요구되었다.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.718-728
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• 2015

강릉남대천의 어류군집 변화와 도입된 어종의 서식실태를 파악하기 위해 9개 지점에서 2013년 9월에서 2014년 5월에 걸쳐 실시하였다. 채집된 어류는 총 14과 36종 이었고, 멸종위기종에 속하는 가시고기(Pungitius sinensis) 1종이 출현하였다. 한반도 고유종은 쉬리(Coreoleuciscus splendidus)을 포함하여 9종으로 고유화빈도가 25.0% 이었다. 우점종은 버들개(Rhynchocypris steindachneri, St. 1), 참갈겨니(Zacco koreanus, St. 2, 4, 5, 6), 새미(Ladislabia taczanowskii, St. 3), 피라미(Zacco platypus, St. 7, 8), 황어(Tribolodon hakonensis, St. 9) 이었다. 한강수계에서 강릉남대천으로 도입된 어종은 새미, 돌고기(Pungtungia herzi), 쉬리(Coreoleuciscus splendidus), 긴몰개(Squalidus gracilis majimae), 모래무지(Pseudogobio esocinus), 금강모치(Rhynchocypris kumgangensis), 피라미, 참갈겨니, 새코미꾸리(Koreocobitis rotundicaudata), 퉁가리(Liobagrus andersoni), 꺽지(Coreoperca herzi) 11종이었다. 개체군과 분포역이 급격히 확대되는 도입어종은 피라미, 참갈겨니, 돌고기, 긴몰개 등이었으며 정착되어 안정적인 개체군을 형성하였으며 서식지가 급격히 확대되지 않은 어종은 새미, 쉬리, 버들개 등 이었다. 정착하였으나 개체군이 매우 적은 어종은 꺽지와 퉁가리이었다. 1973년에 비해 개체수 구성비가 3%이상 감소된 어종은 버들개, 종개(Orthrias toni), 북방종개(Iksookimia pacifica), 은어(Plecoglossus altivelis), 가시고기, 꾹저구(Gymnogobius urotaenia) 등 이었고 버들개는 56.1%에서 12.9%로 가장 많이 감소하였다.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.59-63
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• 2002

Swim up fry of the Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus, were fed 0 or 60 mg l7-methyltestos­terone (MT) per kg feed for 30 days. Fish that had been fed 0 or 60 ppm MT for the first 30 days were subsequently fed a commercial diet for 56 weeks to evaluate growth, survival, sex ratio, body composition, gonadosomatic index and the total edible portion. Mean body weight of MT treated group and untreated group were 1.7 g and 1.1 g, respectively at the end of the treatment for 30 days $(P<0.05)$. The experiment was terminated after a total of 60 weeks, the mean body weight of the MT treated population was 1,016 g and that of the untreated population was 762g $(P<0.05)$. However, the final mean body weight of untreated males (l, 086g) was not significantly different from treated males (l,016 g), but the mean body weight of the female group was 512 g. Therefore, the reason for the lower mean body weight of the untreated group was entirely due to stunted females. The percentage fillet yield of MT treated fish$(34.6\%)$ was not significantly different from that of the untreated males $(34.4\%)$, but the untreated females were lower than those of both treated and untreated male groups $(32.4\%)$ (P<0.05). There were no significant differences in the percentage of the all edible portion (AP) between MT treated and untreated males, but females were lower than males. Females are smaller fish in size and the gonads are larger in proportion which were discarded along with the intestine this explains the observed difference. Total biomass of the two groups were 134.8kg and 104.5kg per $m^3$, respectively. The proportion of fish reaching a marketable size of over 800 g in body weight within 14 months were $78\%$ in the MT treated group and $41\%$ in the untreated group.

• 한국어류학회지
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• 제21권sup1호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2009

The tiny fragment of freshwater body is providing home for huge biodiversity and resources for the existence of human. The competing demand for freshwater have been increased rapidly and it caused the declination of biodiversity in recent decades. Unlike the natural process of extinction in gradual progress, the current species extinction is accelerated by human activity. As a result many fish species are already extinct or alive only in captivity in the world and about fifty eight animal species are in endangered in Korea including eighteen freshwater species. Conservation of biodiversity is the process by which the prevention of loss or damage is attained, and is often associated with management of the natural environment. The practical action is classified into in-situ, or ex-situ depending on the location of the conservation effort. Recovery means the process by which the status of endangerment is improved to persist in the wild by re-introduction of species from ex-situ conservation population into nature or translocation of some population. However there are a lot of restrictions to complete it and successful results are known very rare in case. In this article the authors explore some strategies for conservation and restoration of freshwater fish species conducted in Korea for few years. The major causes are discussed in relation with the decline of freshwater fish diversity during few decades and some strategies are evaluated to advance the process of conservation. A study on the Korean bullhead, Pseudobagrus brevicorpus, is introduced as a case for ex-situ conservation and restoration in freshwater ecosystem.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.233-250
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• 2019

A re-assessment of the age structure of the population of the Antarctic icefish Pseudochaenichthys georgianus based on body length data covering the years 1976-2009 and including larvae and postlarvae collected in 1989 and 1990 allowed us to define age groups 0, I, and II as containing fish with respective body lengths of 6-9 cm, 15-27 cm and 27-39 cm. Age at maturity (first spawning) was found to occur in age group III at body lengths that have been falling from 50.1 cm in 1979 to 45.4 cm in 1992. Considering postlarvae together with adult fish, the v. Bertalanffy growth curve parameters were determined as L_∞ = 60.62 cm, k = 0.4, t₀ = 0.25. Although the reasons for a maturity at shorter body lengths is not fully understood a host of environmental factors like increasing water temperatures and possibly changes in currents, interspecific competition, food availability, etc. are likely to be involved. Global warming (and not primarily overfishing) is likely to have been responsible for the disappearance of larger fish in the surface waters of South Georgia since 1977, for virtually all commercial fishing stopped in the early 1990s. On the other hand, the appearance of numerous younger spawning individuals suggests that larvae do survive in the colder deeper water below 200 m. The biomass of Ps. georgianus oscillates with a 4-year periodicity in contrast to that of the coexisting icefish Chaenocephalus aceratus: the former with a lower biomass in warm years and a higher one in cold years. The biomass of the third species of icefish in the region, i.e. Champsocephalus gunnari, also oscillates, but with a longer periodicity than that involved in the biology of the other two and its biomass increases in contrast to the other two species. The result is that the biomass all three species considered together is rather stable.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권18호
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• pp.7879-7884
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• 2014

To investigate the association between intake of freshwater fish and their fatty acids and the risk of breast cancer in Chinese women, we conducted a case-control study with 669 cases and 682 population-based controls in Jiangsu Province of China. A structured questionnaire was used to elicit detailed information. Unconditional logistic regression analysis was performed to calculate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Total freshwater fish intake was linked to decrease in the adjusted OR for breast cancer, but without dose-dependence. Analyses by freshwater fish species showed that consumption of black carp and silver carp was inversely related to breast cancer risk, with adjusted-ORs for the highest intake category of black carp (${\geq}500g/month$) of 0.54 (95%CI=0.33-0.92; $P_{trend}$ <0.002) and for silver carp (${\geq}1000g/month$) of 0.19 (95%CI=0.11-0.33; $P_{trend}$ <0.001). In contrast, consumption of crucian carp was positively related to breast cancer risk, with an adjusted OR for the highest intake category (${\geq}1000g/month$) of 6.09 (95%CI=3.04-12.2; $P_{trend}$ <0.001). Moderate intakes of SFA, PUFA, n3-PUFA and n6-PUFA from freshwater fish may decrease the risk of breast cancer among premenopausal women. The findings of this study suggest that intake of freshwater fish and their fatty acids may modify risk of breast cancer, and that different species of freshwater fish could have a different actions on breast cancer risk. Future epidemiologic studies are needed to know the effects of freshwater fish intake on breast cancer risk and the cause of these effects.

• 수산경영론집
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.1-28
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• 2009

In recent, the Korean fisheries industry face an overall crisis. Annual fish catch is continuously decreasing for last two decades even though various programs to improve fish population. Moreover, domestic fish market is more and more occupied by imported cheap fish products from abroad due to the consequence of open economic policy, FTA and WTO/DDA entente. Under the circumstances, this study aims to examine the potential for building fisheries cluster as a policy tool to promote fisheries and fisheries-associated industries in Korea. To achieve this goal, the authors firstly reviewed the theoretical concept of Industrial Cluster in the evolutionary economics point of view, secondly, analyzed the main components of Porterian Cluster(or innovation cluster), thirdly, derived the key reasons to induce the improvement of productivity within the cluster network system and lastly evaluated fisheries capability and industrial infrastructures of each province as a basic condition to build a fisheries cluster. The result of the study demonstrates the voluntary accumulation of fish products and processing techniques in Korea, however, it is not enough to make up a Porterian innovation. Therefore, the present is most opportune for applying fisheries cluster as a strategic policy tool. Government supports to establish innovation cluster for fisheries may contribute both fisheries industry and local economy by developing the latent capacity of fisheries and helping concentrate innovation capabilities.

• 한국해양바이오학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2008

Off the 1,572 km long coastline of Namibia lies known as the Benguela upwelling system, a very rich source of marine life supporting traditional and modern forms of fishery. Commercial fishing and fish processing is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the Namibian economy in terms of employment, export earnings, and contribution to GDP. The fishing industry has grown to the extent that it is currently Namibia's second biggest export earner of foreign currency after mining (90% of national output is marketed for export). In 2005, Namibia harvested about 552,164 tonnes of fish. The final value of processed products (export value) that year was around US$ 376.0 million. Besides the marine captured fisheries, Namibia also has a small but vibrant aquaculture sector. Inland captured fisheries exist in the north-east and north-west of Namibia where as commercial freshwater aquaculture of tilapia and catfish is also undertaken. The inland fisheries are mainly subsistence based and typically labour intensive, with low catch per unit effort. However the subsistence fisheries from these regions play a significant role in the lives of rural community. The domestic market for marine fish products is extremely limited due to the small size of the population (2 million). The fishing industry is a source of considerable employment for many Namibians. Huge potential to increase production exists in Namibia, unpolluted high quality marine waters, high natural primary productivity of the seawater, availability of inexpensive fish by-products from established fish processing sector for inclusion in wet aqua-feeds and well-established processing, packaging and marketing systems due to the marine capture fisheries that can be adopted for aquaculture purpose.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.84-96
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• 2022

Most of the islands of Korea are distributed in the South and West Sea, and it consists of independent small stream. As a result, the fish community that inhabits the island's stream is isolated from the mainland and other island. This study utilized a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and a random forest model to analyze the relationship between environmental variables and fish communities inhabiting islands in South Korea. Through the SOM analysis, the fish communities were divided into three clusters, and there were differences in biotic and abiotic factors between these groups. Cluster I consisted of sites with relatively larger island areas and a higher number of species and population. It was found that 15 out of 16 indicator species were included. Meanwhile, the remaining clusters had fewer species and populations. Cluster II, especially, showed the lowest impact from physical variables such as water width and depth. As a result of predicting the species richness using the random forest model, physical variables in habitats, such as stream width and water depth, had a relatively higher importance on species richness. On the other hand, forest area was the most important variables for predicting Shannon diversity, followed by maximum water depth, and gravel. The results suggest that this study can be used as basic data for establishing a stream ecosystem management strategy in terms of conservation and protection of biological resources in streams of islands.