Tidally Induced Temporal Variations in Growth of Young‐of‐the‐Year Pacific Cod in the Yellow Sea

Abstract

The Pacific cod (Gadus microcephalus) is a typical cold-water demersal fish species that is widely distributed in the North Pacific. It is an important commercial species, and the global capture of Pacific cod exhibits large fluctuations, with a recovering trend in recent decades (FAO, 2018). The Yellow Sea is a wide continental shelf sea in the western North Pacific, and is close to the southern limit of the distribution of Pacific cod. Cold-water species can inhabit this temperate ocean because the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass (YSCWM) is widely distributed and has a temperature of <10°C in summer (Tang, 2012), which is just within the optimal temperature range of Pacific cod (Alderdice & Forrester, 1971). The YSCWM is covered by an intense thermocline, with a temperature difference above and below the thermocline of >15°C in this relatively shallow continental shelf sea (depth < 100 m) (Zhang et al., 2008). Even with some small annual

The Influence of Ocean Processes on Fine-Scale Changes in the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass Boundary Area Structure Based on Acoustic Observations

“…Fundamental studies have analyzed the seasonal patterns of the YS temperature structure [5][6][7][8]. However, a detailed understanding of high-frequency fluctuations in the thermocline requires high-resolution data and few studies have been performed in this area; examples would include continuous mooring observation and numerical ocean models [9,10].…”

An offshore subsurface thermal structure inversion method by coupling ensemble learning and tide model for the South Yellow Sea

“…It is called the South Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass (SYSCWM; Li et al, 2017a) in the SYS, which occupies the bottom layers of the central part with a large temperature difference between the surface and the bottom. The SYSCWM plays an important role in the field of hydrodynamics and biochemistry (Wang et al, 2014;Liu et al, 2015;Xin et al, 2015;Li et al, 2016;Guo et al, 2021;Li et al, 2021). The Yellow Sea Warm Current in winter is another prominent feature in the SYS, which transports warm saline water from the Tsushima Warm Current to the SYS (Zhang et al, 2008;Diao et al, 2022;Yu et al, 2022).…”