Yanli Tang

Ocean University of China | OUC · Department of Fishery Resources

Gillnets are the most commonly used fishing gear targeting black rockfish ( Sebastes schlegeli ) and fat greenling ( Hexagrammos otakii ) in the artificial reef area in coastal China. However, a minimum mesh size (MMS) has not yet been established for this fishery, which is unfavorable for sustainable development and effective management of fishery...

Biodiversity is the cornerstone of marine fisheries. To ensure the prosperity of stow net fishery in Haizhou Bay, regular investigations of fishery resources are essential. However, most studies have primarily focused on taxonomic diversity while overlooking functional diversity. In this study, we examined both the taxonomic and functional diversit...

The burgeoning integration of offshore wind power and marine ranching underscores a pivotal avenue for the harmonized advancement of marine fisheries and sustainable energy. Central to this integration is the strategic deployment of artificial reefs (ARs), especially for mitigating scour around offshore wind power pile foundation (OWF). This study...

The hydrodynamic attributes of aquaculture structures play a crucial role in ensuring stability and reliability within complex marine environments. This study focuses on raft aquaculture structures situated in offshore wind farms, with a focus on their interaction with the wind farm monopile. Mooring line tension for these raft aquaculture faciliti...

Artificial reefs play a vital role in marine ecosystem restoration, yet their effectiveness is compromised by local scouring, leading to settlement and burial. This study focuses on mitigating scouring around a cubic artificial reef (CAR) (100mm × 100 mm × 100 mm) through the strategic installation of deflectors. A series of 17 local scour model ex...

Bycatch of threatened flatfish species is a major concern in mixed-species bottom-set gillnet fisheries in the Yellow Sea, China. Therefore, we tested floated gillnets against standard bottom-set gillnets to reduce bycatch by exploiting difference in species-specific fish behavior. Our results demonstrated that the floated gillnet design can greatl...

Abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) is a global challenge that negatively affects marine environment through plastic pollution and continued capture of marine animals, so-called "ghost fishing". In different pot fisheries, ghost fishing related to ALDFG is of concern, including pot fishery targeting swimming crab (Portunus...

In different trap fisheries worldwide, escape openings are often used to improve size and species selectivity by reducing bycatch. The selectivity efficiency of escape openings depends on their shape and size designed according to the target species morphology. However, the efficiency also depends on the number of trapped animals contacting such es...

The ecological ‘attraction’ and ‘production’ functions of reef areas have been the subject of ongoing debate requiring further clarification. The present study focused on the black rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii), an economically dominant species in reef areas of Dabuquan Bay. Comparisons of stable carbon (C) isotopes between the muscle and liver ti...

In the Asian paddle crab (Charybdis japonica) gillnet fishery in the Yellow Sea, China, the minimum mesh size (MMS) regulation has been of a major importance due to high bycatch rates of undersized crabs. In this study, we evaluated how gillnet mesh size can affect the capture probability of C. japonica and capture patterns in this fishery by compa...

Marine plastic pollution and continuous capture of marine animals, so-called "ghost fishing", by abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) are global concerns. This study investigated whether biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA) monofilaments can be used to replace conventionally used non-biodegradable polyamide (PA) in trammel ne...

The industrial integration of offshore wind power and marine ranches has been actively explored and developed in many countries. This emerging industrial synergy can significantly improve the ecological friendliness of offshore wind power and contribute to the development of the marine economy in the region. This industrial synergy is an important...

Artificial reefs (ARs) are one of the key anthropogenic constructs used to restore offshore fishery resources and recover the ecological environment. However, many ARs lose their stability and function due to scour. To ensure the functional effect of ARs, it is of great significance to study the factors causing AR instability, such as burying cause...

Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) are widely cultured in Chinese marine ranching with high economic value. However, mass death of farmed oysters has occurred frequently in recent years because of diseases and environmental disturbance (e.g., high temperatures). In order to analyze the potential relationships between microorganisms and the death o...

To address the issue of minimum mesh size regulations of the stow net fishery for croaker species, we tested and compared the size selectivity and exploitation pattern for diamond- and square-mesh codends with mesh sizes 35, 45 and 55 mm for little yellow croaker (Larimichthys polyactis), silver croaker (Pennahia argentata), and flower croaker (Nib...

Reef habitat in coastal ecosystems is increasingly being augmented with artificial reefs (ARs) and is simultaneously experiencing increasing hypoxia due to eutrophication and climate change. Relatively little is known about the effects of hypoxia on organisms that use complex habitat arrangements and how the presence of highly preferred AR habitat...

The small-scale trammel net fisheries are essential to the economy and well-being of coastal communities in the Yellow Sea, China. However, these fisheries are low efficient and urgently demand technical innovations to improve catch rates. In this study, we conducted field experiments in three traditional fishing grounds (Rizhao, Yantai, and Weihai...

Artificial reef (AR) is one of the key methods to restore the offshore fishery resources and ecological environment. To secure its ecological effects, it is of great significance to study the possible instability of the AR, like sinking and reversing caused by change of the submarine topography, water flow and sediment movement. In the present stud...

Artificial reefs (ARs) are one of the key man-made constructs to restore the offshore fishery resources and recover the ecological environment. However, it is found that many ARs lost their stability and function due to scour. In order to ensure the functional effect of ARs, it is of great significance to study the instability of ARs, like burying...

Marine microorganisms are indispensable regulators of nutrient cycling and energy flow, which are crucial for artificial reefs (ARs) ecosystems. However, little is known about the microbial communities in the bottom water and sediment of ARs. Studies of microbial diversities have greatly advanced due to the development of high-throughput sequencing...

The small-scale whelk (Rapana venosa) and Asian paddle crab (Charybdis japonica) pot fishery are of great socio-economic importance to coastal communities of the Yellow Sea, China. However, the conventional pot with a regulated mesh size of 25 mm is unfavorable to the sustainability of these two species due to its poor selectivity. In this study, w...

The placement of artificial reefs (ARs) influences, to various degrees, a wide range of epibenthic species, whereas most assessments focus on target or focal species. Methods of capturing the responses of many species can inform management about the full range of likely responses of species to the location and arrangement of ARs. Performing many si...

The set-net fishery resources in Haizhou Bay, China have been over-exploited because of overfishing and environmental deterioration. To better understand the current situations and the development trends of fishery resources, the temporal change of biological characteristics and community compositions were analyzed from 2011 to 2018. Meanwhile, we...

Marine bacteria in the seawater and seafloor are essential parts of Earth’s biodiversity, as they are critical participants of the global energy flow and the material cycles. However, their spatial-temporal variations and potential interactions among varied biotopes in artificial habitat are poorly understood. In this study, we profiled the variati...

We profiled and compared the bacterial and protist community compositions and dynamics in the Laoshan Bay marine ranching involving varied aquaculture activities. The dominant species, differential species and community compositions among the five aquaculture areas, two habitats and two periods were significantly different. The relationships betwee...

Artificial reef is a man-made object that is deployed purposefully on the seafloor to restore the offshore fishery resources and the ecological environment. To secure its ecological effects, it is important to study the possible instability of artificial reefs, like drifting and reversing caused by burial and scour in different seafloor conditions....

The construction of artificial reefs has unparallelly developed for a few decades in China. Artificial reefs can be used to manage and conserve commercially exploited fish and crustacea. However, their suitability as ecological niche is poorly characterized. Therefore, in this study, we detected the seasonal variation of community biodiversity and...

Opening holes, especially circular hole, in artificial reef block is a conventional choice in design of artificial reef. However, there is less scientific study about how to select the hole diameter. In this article the performance of the rotary-shaped artificial reefs with different size of circle holes was investigated using CFD method and the or...

Sustainable development of small-scale black rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii) resource has received little attention in Shandong, China, although this species is an important source of income for local fishermen. Accordion-shaped traps with a mesh size of 2 cm are currently used; however, they present poor size selection and effect fishermen’s abilit...

Chinese government has provided vigorous financial supports to artificial reef (AR) projects to repair marine ecosystem. Qiansandao AR, an important AR project of Fishery Resource Restoration Program in Shandong Province, was built during 2002 to 2007. It has enhanced the local fishery harvest and generated positive economic benefits. Fat greenling...

Background: Global regression models under an implicit assumption of spatial stationarity were commonly applied to estimate the environmental effects on aquatic species distribution. However, the relationships between species distribution and environmental variables may change among spatial locations, especially at large spatial scales with compli...

Artificial reefs (ARs) are purposely submerged in natural aquatic environments to provide additional habitat for fish. The reasonable layout of ARs on the sea floor can effectively enhance and support important marine species. This research involves a three-dimensional numerical simulation to analyze the flow effect of three types of AR layouts bas...

Artificial reefs (ARs) are structures constructed on the seabed to attract and concentrate fish and to potentially improve and rehabilitate coastal ecosystems. In order to investigate the hydrodynamic characteristics of ARs, a series of model experiments of cubic artificial reefs are carried out in the flume. The model reefs are made of acrylic mat...

The stranded rope is one of the important components of the fishery aquaculture equipment. We investigate the fluid flow through two-dimensional stranded rope by direct simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations. We show that for different kinds of stranded rope structures, there are significant differences in hydrodynamic performance. This paper es...

Background: Global regression models under an implicit assumption of spatial stationarity were commonly applied to estimate the environmental effects on aquatic species distribution. However, the relationships between species distribution and environmental variables may change among spatial locations, especially at large spatial scales with complic...

Background: Global regression models under an implicit assumption of spatial stationarity were commonly applied to estimate the environmental effects on aquatic species distribution. However, the relationships between species distribution and environmental variables may change among spatial locations, especially at large spatial scales with complic...

Artificial reefs have been deposited along the coastline of China for over 30 years. The purpose of artificial reef construction is to form a changeable and complicated flow field that can promote the water exchange of different layers and attract more fish and marine organisms, and the structure of artificial reefs plays a decisive role in these p...

As a simplified model of artificial reefs, a series of plate models punched with square or circular openings are designed to investigate the effects of openings on the hydrodynamic characteristics of artificial reefs. The models are grouped by various opening numbers and opening-area ratios. They are physically tested in a water flume or used in th...

Set-nets are common alongshore fishing gear used in Haizhou Bay, which rely on flow to catch fish. The catch per unit effort (CPUE) of set-net is affected by spatial-temporal and environmental factors but no research has been conducted on this subject. In this study, we used generalized additive models (GAMs) to explore the influence of spatial-tem...

An otter board is an important device that provides a desired horizontal opening of a trawl net. A high lift coefficient or lift-to-drag ratio is required for an otter board to maintain fishing efficiency. In the present work, the hydrodynamic performance of a circular cambered otter board was studied by numerical simulation, including the effects...

Three-strand rope is the dominant material in fishing net and fish cage. Smooth cylinder is a common numerical model of net twines in the drag force calculation. This paper studied the hydrodynamic characteristics of ropes and smooth cylinders. Large Eddy Simulation was applied to the numerical simulation. Numerical results indicated that the drag...

Exploring species-environment relationships to identify essential habitat areas is recognized as an effective way for resource conservation and management. Because of ecological and economic importance of Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) in Lake Erie, it is essential to develop appropriate habitat models to analyze habitat supply of this species. Em...

To study the hydrodynamic characteristics of the submersible mussel raft in waves and currents, the numerical model of the submersible raft was established based on the finite element method and kinematics theory. The finite element program Aqua-FE™ was applied to simulate the impacts of waves and currents on the hydrodynamic responses of the surfa...

When an ocean current encounters a vertical structure, such as an artificial reef (AR), it can create a plankton-rich upwelling that provides a reliable feeding spot for fish. The fish attracted into the AR zones depends largely on the size, structure, and layout of the ARs. Thus, this study was conducted to demonstrate the effect of different layo...

The hydrodynamic performance of the rectangular V-type otter board is studied by two kinds of numerical simulation methods. The model tests are conducted in the flume tank as well as a comparison to the numerical results. It is found that the CFX analysis is better at simulating the forces, especially for predicting the maximum lift coefficient and...

Flume experiments and numerical simulation were conducted to characterize the hydrodynamics of a trapezoid artificial reef. Measurements in particle image velocimetry were conducted to observe the formation of upwelling and vortices; and forces for the reef model were measured by load cell. The results of flume experiments agree well with the numer...

Over the past few decades, extreme changes have occurred in the characters of exploited fish populations. The majority of these changes have affected the growth traits of fish life history, which include a smaller size-at-age, an earlier age-at-maturation and among others. Currently, the causes of these life history traits changes still require sys...

This article reports a particle image velocimetry study and the comparative results of a numerical simulation into the hydrodynamic characteristics around an artificial reef. We reveal the process of flow separation and vortex evolution, and compare the force terms generated by our artificial reef model. The numerical simulation agrees well with ex...

Comparative fishing experiments were carried out in 2010 using tube traps with five hole diameters (8, 15, 18, 20 and 22 mm) to establish the size selectivity of escape holes for white-spotted conger. Selectivity and split parameters of the SELECT model were calculated using the estimated-split and equal-spilt model. From likelihood ratio tests and...

The hydrodynamic forces and flow field of artificial reef models in steady flow were numerically investigated using the RNG k-ɛ turbulent model. The numerical simulation results are consistent with results observed by experimental means. A comparative study indicates that the corresponding errors of forces between calculated values and values obser...

The estimation of gear selectivity is a critical issue in fishery stock assessment and management. Several methods have been developed for estimating gillnet selectivity, but they all have their limitations, such as inappropriate objective function in data fitting, lack of unique estimates due to the difficulty in finding global minima in minimiza...