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8 Fishery and Biological Implications of Fishing Spawning Aggregations…
Giant yellow
croaker
Bahaba
taipingensis
Sciaenidae
Gill nets
Estuaries of
Hong Kong
and southern
Mainland
China.
Targeted mainly on seasonal aggregations in
estuaries for its highly valuable swimbladder.
The species is likely to be close to extinction
and the rare catch nowadays of a single large
individual often makes news headlines.
Landings plummeted in the middle of the
twentieth century. Endangered on the IUCN
Red List
Sadovy and Cheung
( 2003 )
Large yellow
croaker
Larimichthyes
crocea
Sciaenidae
Trawl-dragged seine
nets
Estuarine and
offshore
areas, mainly
of Mainland
China and
Hong Kong
Once a very important fi shery in coastal China and
heavily fi shed since the 1950s with little
effective management. Heavily fi shed during
the spawning seasons and in deeper overwintering areas. Marked declines occurred in the
1980s and catches of wild fi sh are now
uncommon
Liu and Sadovy
( 2008 )
8 Fishery and Biological Implications of Fishing Spawning Aggregations…
Giant yellow
croaker
Bahaba
taipingensis
Sciaenidae
Gill nets
Estuaries of
Hong Kong
and southern
Mainland
China.
Targeted mainly on seasonal aggregations in
estuaries for its highly valuable swimbladder.
The species is likely to be close to extinction
and the rare catch nowadays of a single large
individual often makes news headlines.
Landings plummeted in the middle of the
twentieth century. Endangered on the IUCN
Red List
Sadovy and Cheung
( 2003 )
Large yellow
croaker
Larimichthyes
crocea
Sciaenidae
Trawl-dragged seine
nets
Estuarine and
offshore
areas, mainly
of Mainland
China and
Hong Kong
Once a very important fi shery in coastal China and
heavily fi shed since the 1950s with little
effective management. Heavily fi shed during
the spawning seasons and in deeper overwintering areas. Marked declines occurred in the
1980s and catches of wild fi sh are now
uncommon
Liu and Sadovy
( 2008 )