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Decadal variations in the community status of economically important invertebrates in the Bohai Sea
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Qiang Wu1, 2, Lisha Guan1, 2, Zhongyi Li1, 2, Xiujuan Shan1, 2, Xianshi Jin1, 2, *
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Acta Oceanologica Sinica | 2019, 38(10): 60-66
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Decadal variations in the community status of economically important invertebrates in the Bohai Sea
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Qiang Wu1, 2, Lisha Guan1, 2, Zhongyi Li1, 2, Xiujuan Shan1, 2, Xianshi Jin1, 2, *
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  • 1 Key Laboratory for Sustainable Development of Marine Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture/Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Fishery Resources and Eco-environment, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  • 2 Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China
Published: 2019-10-25 doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1488-1
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With the decline of fish stocks, the proportions of economically important invertebrates like crustaceans and cephalopods have increased in the Bohai Sea. The community structure and trophic level of economically important invertebrates were analyzed using the bottom trawl survey data collected by the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute in the Bohai Sea in May and August of 1958–1959, 1982, 1992–1993, 2004, 2009 and 2015. A total of 37 species of economically important invertebrates, belonging to 5 orders, 24 families, were captured. The biomass densities of economically important invertebrates in the Bohai Sea displayed an overall downward trend from 1982 to 2015. Oratosquilla oratoria and Loligo spp. were the most dominant species in the past 30 years, the biomass proportion of O. oratoria increased gradually in both May and August from 1982 to 2015. Moreover, biodiversity indices of economically important invertebrates in the Bohai Sea appeared to decline from 1982 to 2004 and then increased in 2015. Similarly, the mean trophic level of economically important invertebrates declined from 1982 to 2004 and increased slightly in 2015. Overall, although the proportions of invertebrates have increased, the biomass densities in the Bohai Sea have displayed an overall downward trend from 1982 to 2015. The increases in the biodiversity and trophic level of economically important invertebrates after the 2000s, possibly benefit from stock enhancement projects implemented by governments at different levels and national fishery management measures such as the “double-control” of the total number and engine power of fishing vessels and summer moratorium of fishing.

decadal variations  /  community structure  /  trophic level  /  economically important invertebrates  /  Bohai Sea
Qiang Wu, Lisha Guan, Zhongyi Li, Xiujuan Shan, Xianshi Jin. Decadal variations in the community status of economically important invertebrates in the Bohai Sea[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019 , 38 (10) : 60 -66 . DOI: 10.1007/s13131-019-1488-1
The Bohai Sea is a semi-closed basin with an area of about 80 000 km2 and an average water depth of 18 m (Tang et al., 2003). More than 40 rivers run into the Bohai Sea, including the Huanghe River (Yellow River), Haihe River, Luanhe River and Liaohe River, etc. These rivers discharge large amounts of nutrition (e.g., nitrate, nitrite, phosphate and silicate) into the Bohai Sea, promoting phytoplankton blooms and thereby providing plentiful food organisms for various fishery stocks. Therefore, the Bohai Sea serves as the spawning, nursery or feeding grounds of many fisheries-targeted species and used to be well-known as “the cradle of fisheries of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea” (Deng et al., 1988; Jin, 2001).
Unfortunately, the production of fish has declined sharply in the Bohai Sea over the past half century, as a consequence of multiple stressors including overfishing, environmental pollution and climate change (Jin, 2003; Jin et al., 2013). The community structure of fishery stocks in the Bohai Sea has changed greatly (Jin, 2004), with dominant species shifted from large-sized groundfishes at high-trophic levels to small-sized pelagic fishes or invertebrates at low-trophic levels (Iversen et al., 2001; Tang et al., 2016; Wu et al., 2017). The mean trophic level (MTL) of fishery stocks dropped from 4.4 in 1959 to 3.4 in 2011 in the Laizhou Bay, Bohai Sea (Zhang et al., 2015). Crustaceans and cephalopods are important parts of marine ecosystems, which provide a large amount of high-quality proteins for humans. With the decline of fish stocks, the proportions of economically important invertebrates (EII) like crustaceans and cephalopods have increased in the Laizhou Bay within the Bohai Sea (Wu et al., 2016). In 2016, a total of 2.40 million tons of crustaceans and 0.70 million tons of cephalopods were captured in the offshore China, accounting for 18.04% and 5.32% of the total offshore catches, respectively (National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2015).
Changes in the biomass, structure and biodiversity of fish community in the Bohai Sea have been evaluated using the bottom trawl survey data provided by the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute (YSFRI) from 1959 to 1998 (Jin, 2003). The decadal variations in the ecosystem productivity and control mechanisms of the Bohai Sea during the 1959 to 1999 have also been evaluated (Tang et al., 2003). However, long-term variability in the invertebrate community has been ignored in the Bohai Sea. This study aims at filling this gap through quantifying spatio-temporal trends in the biomass, structure, biodiversity and trophic level of the EII community in the Bohai Sea. Results of this study would provide scientific supports for the sustainable utilization of EII, including shrimps, crabs, squillas and cephalopods.
Data used were obtained from the spring and summer bottom trawl surveys by the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute (YSFRI), Chinese Academy of Fishery Science (CAFS) in the Bohai Sea during the years of 1982, 1992–1993, 2004, 2009 and 2015. The spring and summer surveys were implemented in May and August, respectively. We divided the Bohai Sea into four subareas (i.e., the Laizhou Bay, the Bohai Bay, the Liaodong Bay and the central Bohai Sea) in order to evaluate spatio-temporal variations in the community of EII (Fig. 1). The number of stations for all the selected surveys was listed in Table 1 by season and subarea. Although the number and spatial distribution of sampling stations slightly differed by year, all the surveys covered the same broad area of the Bohai Sea. Moreover, the surveys were only conducted during the daytime to avoid the effect of diel vertical movements of different species on catchability.
The same paired trawlers have been used in the surveys since 1982, with the same type of fishing gears. The gears had a cod-end mesh size of 2 cm, a headline height of 5–6 m and a distance of 22.6 m between wings. Please see related studies (Deng et al., 1988; Tang et al., 2003; Jin, 2004) for detailed descriptions of the sampling protocol during 1982 to 2015. All catch rates by species from the surveys were standardized for 1 h for each station.
In this study, we used the Shannon-Wiener diversity index (H′) (Shannon and Weaver, 1963), Pielou’s evenness index (J′) (Pielou, 1966), and Margalef’s richness index (D) (Margalef, 1958) as biodiversity indicators for the EII community in the Bohai Sea.
Fluctuations in the trophic level of the marine catches can reflect dynamic variations in community structure of the living marine resources (Pauly et al., 2001). Mean trophic level (MTL) from catches is one of the most widely adopted marine indicators, intended to detect shifts from high-trophic-level predators to low-trophic-level invertebrates and plankton-feeders (Pauly et al., 1998; Pauly and Palomares, 2005; Pauly and Watson, 2005). This indicator underpins reported trends in human impacts, declining when predators collapse (“fishing down marine food webs” (Pauly et al., 1998) and when low-trophic-level fisheries expand (“fishing through marine foodwebs”) (Essington et al., 2006). The MTL of EII was calculated using the following formula:
${{MTL}} = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^k{{T}}{{{L}}_i}{Y_i}/{Y_{\rm t}},$
where TLi is the trophic level of the species i, Yi is the biomass of the species i, and Yt is the total biomass of all species. The trophic level of biomass-dominant species of EII (Table 2) were obtained from historical articles (Zhang and Tang, 2004; Yang, 2001).
Figure 2 illustrates long-term changes in the density (i.e., relative biomass) of EII in the Bohai Sea. The relative biomass of EII fluctuated in the range of 2.54 to 8.69 kg/h in May and 14.20 to 31.49 kg/h in August during the 1982 to 2015. Overall, the densities of EII in the Bohai Sea showed a downward trend after 1982. The biomass densities in August were significantly higher than the biomass densities in May (P<0.05). In May, the biomass density of EII increased from 6.64 kg/h in 1982 to 8.69 kg/h in 1992, then decreased to 2.54 kg/h in 2004 and increased again to 3.05 kg/h in 2015. In August, the biomass density of EII declined from 31.49 kg/h in 1982 to 14.20 kg/h in 1993, then increased to 24.08 kg/h in 2009 and decreased again to 14.11 kg/h in 2015.
Figure 3 displays long-term changes in the biomass-dominant species of EII in the Bohai Sea. Oratosquilla oratoria and Loligo spp. (including Loligo japonica and Loligo beka) were the most abundant species in May and August during 1982–2015. Moreover, the biomass proportion of O. oratoria increased gradually in May and August after 1982.
Oratosquill oratoria was the most dominant species in May of 1982, 2004 and 2015, which separately accounted for 41%, 59% and 64% of the overall biomass each year. Loligo spp. was the most dominant species in the spring of 1993, contributing to 62% of the total biomass of EII in the Bohai Sea. The most dominant species changed to be O. oratoria in August of 1992, 2009 and 2015, respectively. Loligo spp. was the most dominant species in the Bohai Sea in August of 1982, accounting for 59% of the overall biomass of EII.
In May, the overall density of EII in the Bohai Sea was the highest in 1993, secondly highest in 1982 and the lowest in 2004. In August, the overall density of EII in the Bohai Sea was the highest in 1982 and the lowest in 2015. Overall, the biomass-dominant species of EII have changed in the Bohai Sea since 1982. In May, the biomass-dominant species were mantis shrimp and cephalopods in 1982 and 1993. Subsequently, mantis shrimp became the most dominant species in 2004 and 2015, with the proportion of cephalopods largely reduced. Similarly, the ecological niches of crabs and shrimps in the Bohai Sea have been gradually occupied by mantis shrimp in August during the last 40 years.
Figure 4 showed long-term changes in the biomass composition of EII in four subareas of the Bohai Sea. The biomass of invertebrates first increased and then decreased in the Laizhou Bay (August), Bohai Bay (May) and Liaodong Bay (May) during 1982–2015. In addition, the biomasses of invertebrates were bimodal in the Laizhou Bay (May), Bohai Bay (August), Liaodong Bay (August) and the central Bohai Sea (May and August) from 1982 to 2015. The biomass-dominant species of EII differed by subarea. In the Laizhou Bay, the biomass-dominant species were cephalopods (May) and crabs (August) from 1982 to the 1990s, and mantis shrimp became the biomass-dominant species after 2000. In the Bohai Bay, the proportion of mantis shrimp has increased gradually in the last 30 years. In the Liaodong Bay, the biomass-dominant species were cephalopods in 1982, and mantis shrimp became the biomass-dominant species in the last 30 years. In the central Bohai Sea, the proportion of the mantis shrimp in the overall biomass of EII has increased continuously in the last 30 years.
A total of 37 species of EII within 5 orders and 24 families, were captured in the Bohai Sea from 1982 to 2015. We listed the occurrence frequencies of all species in Table A1. Totally, 16, 17, 30 and 31 species were caught in 1982, 1992/1993, 2004/2009, and 2015, respectively. We also evaluated long-term trends in the biodiversity of EII in the Bohai Sea (Fig. 5). In May, the temporal trends of three diversity indices (D, J′, H′) of EII were similar in the Bohai Sea, which declined from 1982 to 2004 and then increased in 2015. In August, three diversity indices (D, J′, H′) were relatively stable from 1982 to 2009 and then increased greatly in 2015.
We compared the long-term changes of EII biodiversity in four subareas of the Bohai Sea (Fig. 5). In May, the changing trend of three diversity indices (D, J′, H′) was similar in the Liaodong Bay, central Bohai Sea and Laizhou Bay. The changing trend of three diversity indices (D, J′, H′) was the opposite in the Bohai Bay. In August, temporal changes of three diversity indices (D, J′, H′) differed by subarea.
Overall, the EII community in the Bohai Sea indicated a downward trend, which was the highest in 1982, when the dominant species were Loligo spp. and O. oratoria at high trophic levels. The MTL of EII in the Bohai Sea appeared to decrease from 1982 to the 2000s, and then slightly increased in 2015 (Fig. 6).
The biomass density of fish in the Bohai Sea declined from 85.2 kg/h in 1982 to 3.7 kg/h in 1998 (Jin, 2004). The biomass densities of EII in the Bohai Sea fluctuated in the range of 2.54 to 8.69 kg/h in spring and 14.20 to 31.49 kg/h in summer during 1982–2015. Overall, the biomass densities of EII in the Bohai Sea displayed a downward trend from 1982 to 2015. The biomass density of EII was the highest in August 1982, due to the outbreak of Loligo spp. and P. trituberculatus, which accounted for 80% of the total yields. Since then, with the decline of the biomass density of Loligo spp. and P. trituberculatus, the biomass densities of EII declined continuously from 1992 to 2015.
Biomass-dominant species of EII in the Bohai Sea have changed gradually. The biomass-dominant species were Loligo spp., O.oratoria and P. trituberculatus during 1982–1993, which contributing to more than 79% of the total biomass density, totally. Recently, O. oratoria has gradually dominated the biomass density of EII, which accounts for more than 56% of the total biomass density.
Multiple reasons could explain why O. oratoria has become the unique dominant species in the Bohai Sea (Wu et al., 2016, 2018). First, the Bohai Sea has widespread silty clay substrates, which provide suitable habitats for O. oratoria with burrowing habit. Second, O. oratoria can tolerate a wide range of temperatures (6–31°C) and have shown a high resistance to diseases (Wang et al., 1998). Third, O. oratoria is a r-strategy species with a high reproductivity and short life cycle (Keita et al., 2004, 2005). Finally, long-term overfishing has severely depleted the F. chinensis and P. trituberculatus stocks which compete with O. oratoria for food and space, and thereby increased the food sources and living space of O. oratoria.
The changes in the MTL of the total offshore fishing species in China were analyzed using the data from FAO, with invertebrates contributing 14.2%–26.9% to the MTL of captured species in China (Du et al., 2014). According to the statistical data from the Chinese Fisheries Statistics Yearbook during 1956–2014, the MTL of marine catches in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea tends to decrease especially after 1980 (Wu et al., 2017). The results of this study are consistent with the conclusions above. This phenomenon can be explained by the ecological attributes and feeding characteristics of dominant species, which have shifted from large-sized groundfishes at high-trophic levels to small-sized pelagic fishes or invertebrates at low-trophic levels.
Under the influence of over-exploitation, both the biomass density and biodiversity of EII in the Bohai Sea have declined from 1982 to 1993 (Figs 2 and 5). Chinese government has implemented a lot of regulations and strategies to promote the recovery of fishery resources since 1995, such as “double-control” of the total number and power of fishing vessels, closed season/areas, and limits of catchable size, etc. (Tang et al., 2016). This has contributed to increases in the biodiversity and MTL of EII in the Bohai Sea from 2004 to 2015 (Figs 2 and 5). Therefore, we propose to implement stricter management measures, such as total catch limit and fisheries moratorium, to conserve and restore the invertebrate resources in the Bohai Sea.
A total of 37 species of EII, belonging to 5 orders, 24 families, were captured in the Bohai Sea from 1982 to 2015. The biomass densities of EII in the Bohai Sea demonstrated an overall downward trend from 1982 to 2015. Oratosquilla oratoria and Loligo spp. were the most dominant species in the past 30 years. The biomass proportion of O.oratoria increased gradually in both May and August from 1982 to 2015. The changing trends of three diversity indices (D, J', H') for EII in the Bohai Sea were similar, which declined in the springs or kept relatively stable in the summers of 1982 to 2004, then increased in 2015. The MTL of EII in the Bohai Sea appeared to decrease from 1982 to the 2000s, and then slightly increased in 2015. Overall, both the biodiversity and trophic level of EII in the Bohai Sea have increased gradually from 2004 to 2015, possibly benefiting from the stock enhancement project and management measures, such as “double-control” of the total number and power of fishing vessels, closed season/areas, and limits of catchable size, etc.
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    1 Key Laboratory for Sustainable Development of Marine Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture/Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Fishery Resources and Eco-environment, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
    2 Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China

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鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae 2 11 5.26 鹅膏菌属 Amanita 10 4.78
小菇科 Mycenaceae 2 12 5.74 丝盖伞属 Inocybe 5 2.39
多孔菌科 Polyporaceae 8 14 6.70 蜡蘑属 Laccaria 5 2.39
红菇科 Russulaceae 3 23 11.00 小皮伞属 Marasmius 6 2.87
小菇属 Mycena 11 5.26
光柄菇属 Pluteus 5 2.39
红菇属 Russula 17 8.13
栓菌属 Trametes 5 2.39
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