摘要：
It was formerly believed that there were 3 populations of Larimichthys crocea distributed in the China Sea. Among these, individuals in the waters of Daiquyang, Zhejiang province and Guanjingyang were thought to belong to different populations. We reviewed the delineation of populations of L. crocea in the East China Sea and Yellow Sea based on a suite of methodologies, including geographical isolation, population dynamics, and ocean hydrology, so as to provide a rigorous basis for the division and to improve our ability to track declines in a given population. We used catch statistics of L. crocea from 1971 to 1982 from several major fishing companies. We identified two over-wintering grounds in the northern offshore and the southern near-shore regions of the East China Sea. The over-wintering resources in the Mindong-Wentai fishing grounds played a dominant role in the southern near-shore region of the East China Sea. The Guanjingyang L. crocea population overwintered in the waters of Mindong. Given this, the Guanjingyang L. crocea population was assigned to the East China Sea & Yellow Sea population. Two additional lines of evidence support this assignment. First, during a mark recapture study, a male large yellow croaker that was tagged at Daiquyang on May 20, 1958 was caught in Lianjiang (26°21'5"N, 119°50'E, 32 meters) on April 21, 1959. Thus, the populations in both Mindong and Daiquyang waters should be the same population with mutual inhabitation. Second, the East China Sea coastal current and the Taiwan Warm Current affect the coastal waters of Fujian and Zhejiang year round. Therefore oceanographic conditions are unlikely to cause population isolation.%以往研究认为,大黄鱼(Larimichthys crocea)可划分为3个种群,其中在东黄海,浙江的岱衢洋大黄鱼和福建的官井洋大黄鱼被认为分属于两个不同的种群.本研究根据中国大陆10多个主要渔业公司1971-1982年间的大黄鱼捕捞统计资料,从地理隔离、数量动态和海洋水文方面,重新审视了东黄海大黄鱼种群划分问题,为大黄鱼种群划分和大黄鱼资源兴衰的研究提供科学依据.研究表明:东海北部外海和东海南部近海是大黄鱼主要的两个越冬场,其中闽东—温台水域的大黄鱼产量在东海南部近海产量占主导地位.东海南部近海大黄鱼地理分布表明,从温台渔场到闽东渔场大黄鱼的越冬场在空间分布上具有连续性,而官井洋大黄鱼正是闽东渔场大黄鱼的主体部分.由此可以认为:官井洋所在的闽东渔场的大黄鱼和东黄海大黄鱼同属于东黄海大黄鱼种群.这一结论通过3个旁证得到印证:其一,大黄鱼标志放流结果显示,1959年4月21日在连江县北茭洋东32 m深的地方(26°21′5"N、119°50′E)重捕到浙江水产实验所于1958年5月20日在岱衢洋寨子山东偏北大黄鱼产卵场放流的1尾雄性大黄鱼,因此,闽东渔场的大黄鱼和岱衢洋是相互混栖的同一群体；其二,东海沿岸流和台湾暖流终年影响着闽浙近海,难以形成大黄鱼种群隔离、种群分化所需要的海洋学条件；其三,官井洋大黄鱼春夏之交产卵,与岱衢洋和猫头洋大黄鱼相似,而与粤东和粤西大黄鱼在9-12月产卵完全不同.本研究旨在为大黄鱼资源的研究提供依据.
