The Taiwan Bank (TB) is located in the southern Strait, where marine environments are affected by South China Sea Warm Current and Kuroshio Branch summer. bottom water flows upward along edge of continental shelf, forming an upwelling region that essential high-productivity fishing ground. Using trophic dynamic theory, fishery resources can be converted into primary production required (PPR) pr...

Subsea pipelines and wells installed to support the oil gas industry represent some of most extensive numerous anthropogenic structures throughout global marine ecosystems. There remains a paucity information on habitat value these for fishery target species and, as result, little understanding how decommissioning should be conducted minimise impacts populations economically socially important ...

The monorchiid trematode Huridostomum formionis Mamaev, 1970 originally described from the black pomfret, Apolectus niger, from the Gulf of Tonkin by Mamaev (1970) is redescribed based on material collected from the same host from the Visakhapatnam coast, Bay of Bengal. The redescription provides additional information on the arrangement of the enlarged spines on the anterodorsal region of the ...

Littorellicola billhawkinsi n. gen., n. sp. infects the myocardial lacunae of the ventricle and atrium of Florida pompano, Trachinotus carolinus in the northern Gulf of Mexico. It differs from other aporocotylid genera by the combination of having a body 10-30× longer than wide, a posterolateral body protuberance, lateral spine rows, an aspinous anterior sucker comprising a slightly muscular ri...