Shao Kwang-Tsao, Lin Jack, Wu Chung-Han, Yeh Hsin-Ming, Cheng Tun-Yuan
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, No. 128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Nankang, Taipei, TAIWAN, R.O.C.
Zookeys. 2012(198):103-9. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.198.3032. Epub 2012 May 30.
Bottom trawl fishery is one of the most important coastal fisheries in Taiwan both in production and economic values. However, its annual production started to decline due to overfishing since the 1980s. Its bycatch problem also damages the fishery resource seriously. Thus, the government banned the bottom fishery within 3 nautical miles along the shoreline in 1989. To evaluate the effectiveness of this policy, a four year survey was conducted from 2000-2003, in the waters around Taiwan and Penghu (Pescadore) Islands, one region each year respectively. All fish specimens collected from trawling were brought back to lab for identification, individual number count and body weight measurement. These raw data have been integrated and established in Taiwan Fish Database (http://fishdb.sinica.edu.tw). They have also been published through TaiBIF (http://taibif.tw), FishBase and GBIF (website see below). This dataset contains 631 fish species and 3,529 records, making it the most complete demersal fish fauna and their temporal and spatial distributional data on the soft marine habitat in Taiwan.
底拖网渔业是台湾最重要的沿海渔业之一，在产量和经济价值方面都举足轻重。然而，自20世纪80年代以来，由于过度捕捞，其年产量开始下降。其兼捕问题也严重损害了渔业资源。因此，政府于1989年禁止在海岸线3海里范围内进行底拖网捕捞。为评估这项政策的成效，于2000年至2003年进行了为期四年的调查，每年分别在台湾及澎湖列岛周边海域选取一个区域。所有拖网采集的鱼类标本均带回实验室进行鉴定、个体数量统计和体重测量。这些原始数据已整合并录入台湾鱼类数据库（http://fishdb.sinica.edu.tw）。它们也已通过台湾生物多样性资讯网（http://taibif.tw）、鱼类数据库和全球生物多样性资讯机构（网站见下文）发布。该数据集包含631种鱼类和3529条记录，是台湾软质海洋栖息地最完整的底栖鱼类区系及其时空分布数据。
