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Seasonal analysis of artificial oyster reef ecosystems: implications for sustainable fisheries management

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Oyster reef habitats in estuarine areas are an important marine ecosystem globally. Due to the destruction of oyster reef habitats within the Luanhe River estuarine area, Bohai Sea, China, a local fisheries company created 2 km2 of artificial oyster reef habitats by deploying artificial reef blocks that provided a settling surface for a natural oyster population and conducted sea cucumber aquaculture. The aims of this study are to help fisheries managers to understand whether the ecosystem function of created oyster reef habitat is consistent throughout the seasons and to assess if the current fishing production policy which varies with seasons is reasonable. We presented steady-state trophic models in different seasons of a newly created artificial coastal oyster reef within the Luanhe River estuary to address the above issues. We concluded that seasonality is an important factor that needs to be carefully considered in the fisheries management of oyster reef ecosystems.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Mr Chun Li and the members of Tangshan Marine Ranching Ltd. for their help with field sampling, as well as members from the CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for constructive discussions and encouragement. We thank anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments.

Funding

The research was supported by Tangshan Talent Project (no. A201905009), Qingdao Postdoctoral Applied Basic Research (no. Y7KY02106N), a Postdoctoral International Exchange Program Introduction Project (no. Y8KY02102L), Hebei Province Modern Agricultural Industry Technical System “Special seafood innovation team” (no. HBCT2018170204), and the special fund for the Key R&D Project of Zhejiang Province (no. 2019C02056).

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  1. Key Laboratory of East China Sea and Oceanic Fishery Resources Exploitation, Ministry of Agriculture, Shanghai, 200090, China

    Min Xu, Xiao jing Song & Lin lin Yang

  2. East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Shanghai, 200090, China

    Min Xu, Xiao jing Song & Lin lin Yang

  3. Hebei Provincial Technology Innovation Center for Coastal Ecology Rehabilitation, Tangshan Marine Ranching Co. Ltd., Tangshan, 063610, China

    Xin yuan Yang

  4. Marine Fisheries Research Institute of Zhejiang, Zhoushan, 316021, China

    Kai da Xu

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Xu, M., Yang, X., Song, X. et al. Seasonal analysis of artificial oyster reef ecosystems: implications for sustainable fisheries management. Aquacult Int 29, 167–192 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-020-00617-x

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