The Shandong Peninsula is located in northern China and is bordered by the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea (Figure 1a). The coastal waters of the Shandong Peninsula are forced by the East Asian monsoon system (Huang et al., 2012), land runoff and coastal currents, namely, the Bohai Coastal Current, the Lubei Coastal Current, and the Yellow Sea Coastal Current, which flow clockwise around the peninsula. In China, the coastal waters of the Shandong Peninsula are intensively maricultured areas (Figure 1b; Ren et al., 2019;
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