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Article: Initial recovery of demersal fish communities in coastal waters of Hong Kong, South China, following a trawl ban

TitleInitial recovery of demersal fish communities in coastal waters of Hong Kong, South China, following a trawl ban
Authors
KeywordsTrawl ban
Recovery
Fisheries resources
Fisheries management
Conservation
Community analyses
Issue Date2021
PublisherSpringer Netherlands. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.springer.com/journal/11160
Citation
Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2021, v. 31 n. 4, p. 989-1007 How to Cite?
AbstractFisheries resources in Hong Kong have been overexploited since the 1970s due to intensive bottom trawling and other fishing activities that have depleted stocks and destroyed marine habitat. To rehabilitate depleted fisheries resources, a permanent ban on trawling in Hong Kong territorial waters came into force on December 31, 2012. In order to determine whether the trawl facilitated recovery of fish communities, trawl surveys were conducted at two sites in each of the eastern, southern and western (estuarine) coastal waters of Hong Kong before and three years after the trawl ban. A total of 315 species and 86 families of fishes in nine feeding groups were encountered during the surveys. Mean trophic level of the fish community, abundance and biomass of total fishes and of predatory fishes increased in eastern and western waters after the ban, but no changes or declines in these metrics were observed in southern waters. Although initial recovery in fish community were observed in eastern and western waters, anthropogenic disturbances might hinder the recovery process, including a large-scale reclamation for construction of coastal infrastructures in the west, illegal trawling, and expansion of non-trawling fishing efforts in the southern and eastern waters. Longer term monitoring is needed to evaluate the effects of the trawl ban, and determine whether recovery in the southern waters will continue to be constrained by the anthropogenic disturbances.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/305593
ISSN
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2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.684
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dc.contributor.authorMak, YKY-
dc.contributor.authorTao, LSR-
dc.contributor.authorHo, VCM-
dc.contributor.authorDudgeon, D-
dc.contributor.authorCheung, WWL-
dc.contributor.authorLeung, KMY-
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-20T10:11:35Z-
dc.date.available2021-10-20T10:11:35Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationReviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2021, v. 31 n. 4, p. 989-1007-
dc.identifier.issn0960-3166-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/305593-
dc.description.abstractFisheries resources in Hong Kong have been overexploited since the 1970s due to intensive bottom trawling and other fishing activities that have depleted stocks and destroyed marine habitat. To rehabilitate depleted fisheries resources, a permanent ban on trawling in Hong Kong territorial waters came into force on December 31, 2012. In order to determine whether the trawl facilitated recovery of fish communities, trawl surveys were conducted at two sites in each of the eastern, southern and western (estuarine) coastal waters of Hong Kong before and three years after the trawl ban. A total of 315 species and 86 families of fishes in nine feeding groups were encountered during the surveys. Mean trophic level of the fish community, abundance and biomass of total fishes and of predatory fishes increased in eastern and western waters after the ban, but no changes or declines in these metrics were observed in southern waters. Although initial recovery in fish community were observed in eastern and western waters, anthropogenic disturbances might hinder the recovery process, including a large-scale reclamation for construction of coastal infrastructures in the west, illegal trawling, and expansion of non-trawling fishing efforts in the southern and eastern waters. Longer term monitoring is needed to evaluate the effects of the trawl ban, and determine whether recovery in the southern waters will continue to be constrained by the anthropogenic disturbances.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlands. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.springer.com/journal/11160-
dc.relation.ispartofReviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectTrawl ban-
dc.subjectRecovery-
dc.subjectFisheries resources-
dc.subjectFisheries management-
dc.subjectConservation-
dc.subjectCommunity analyses-
dc.titleInitial recovery of demersal fish communities in coastal waters of Hong Kong, South China, following a trawl ban-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailDudgeon, D: ddudgeon@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailLeung, KMY: kmyleung@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityDudgeon, D=rp00691-
dc.identifier.authorityLeung, KMY=rp00733-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11160-021-09685-5-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85115603524-
dc.identifier.hkuros326931-
dc.identifier.volume31-
dc.identifier.issue4-
dc.identifier.spage989-
dc.identifier.epage1007-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000698905500001-
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands-

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