• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.78-84
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• 2011

We investigated the stomach contents of finless porpoises collected in the Yellow Sea. Prey organisms in the stomachs of 109 finless porpoises were identified as 11 species of fish, 8 species of shrimp and 4 species of cephalopod. Index of Relative Importance analysis revealed that the porpoises fed mainly on the Japanese sand shrimp (Crangon affinis). The energy density of the prey was estimated to be 5.46 kJ. The daily energy requirement was estimated to be 18,051 kJ/day for a porpoise with an average weight of 32.49 kg. The estimated annual consumption by finless porpoises in the Yellow Sea was 25,454 tons. The average commercial catch in the Yellow Sea by Korean fisheries was 135,913 tons from 2005 to 2009. Assuming that the abundance of finless porpoises is stable, porpoises ate approximately 18.7% of the commercial catch. The fishery catch may be influenced by the consumption by finless porpoises, while fishery bycatch is a cause of porpoise mortality in the Yellow Sea.

• 한국패류학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.295-298
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• 2014

본 연구는 서해안 새만금 방조제 내만에서 발견된 상괭이의 기생충 감염 사례 보고이다. 상괭이는 수컷으로 연령이 8세로 추정되었다. 기생충은 복강, 두개골 및 폐 등 총 3개 기관에서 3종류가 발견되었다. 복강내 선충은 Crassicauda sp.으로 추정되었다. 두개골내 흡충은 Nasitrema sp., 선충은 Pseudaliids 과에 속하는 폐충의 일종일 것으로 추정되었고 폐충은 폐 조직표본 현미경 검사에서도 발견되었다. 아니사키스 (Anisakis spp.) 는 발견되지 않았다.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.486-492
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• 2012

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.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.704-713
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• 2018

Globally, the survival of many marine mammals is threatened by entanglement in fishing gear and there is also a high bycatch in Korea. This study analyzed the bycatch data of most cetacean species for Korean waters from 2011 to 2017, including the narrow-ridged finless porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis, common dolphin Delphinus delphis, common minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata, and Pacific white-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus obliquidens. A total of 12,262 cetaceans were captured as bycatch. In the Yellow and South Seas, the main species affected was the narrow-ridged finless porpoise, with 82.9% caught in stow nets and 11.5% captured in trawls. In the East Sea, the common minke whale, common dolphin, and Pacific white-sided dolphin were reported. The main common minke whale bycatch (43.5%) was in set nets, while common dolphins (49.0%) and Pacific white-sided dolphins (91.4%) were mainly caught in gill nets. The narrow-ridged finless porpoise, common dolphin, and common minke whale were most commonly reported in March, April, and May, while the Pacific white-sided dolphin was most frequently captured as bycatch in January and December. Each of these factors (season and gear responsible for bycatch) depended on the characteristics of the cetacean species. To conserve cetaceans, it is necessary to reduce the bycatch.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.537-545
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• 2021

인간에 의한 연안 지역 개발 및 변형의 가속화로 인해 해양포유류에 대한 피해가 우려되고 있다. 연안 개발이 해양포유류에 어떤 영향을 미칠 수 있는지 이해하려면 이들의 분포를 파악하는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 서남해 해상풍력 실증단지에서 수동 음향 관측을 통해 상괭이의 출현을 확인하였다. 실험지역에서의 상괭이에 대한 목시관측 결과가 없으므로, 풍력단지에서 탐지된 클릭은 상괭이 발견율이 높은 지역에서 측정한 클릭과 음향특성을 비교하여 검증하였다. 음향 측정 결과에 의하면 상괭이는 매일 출몰하였으며, 평균 클릭수는 40.7회, 상괭이의 출현 비율은 9.7 %, 출현 시간은 18.2 min이며, 대기 시간은 94.9 min으로 나타났다. 이 연구를 통해 서남해 해상풍력 실증단지에서 알려지지 않은 상괭이 출현에 대한 정보를 제공하였으며, 이러한 결과는 풍력단지 운영으로 인한 해양포유류의 영향을 모니터링하는데 도움을 줄 수 있다.