Engraulis japonicusEngraulis japonicus

Engraulis japonicusEngraulis japonicus: General Biology: General Biology

Family: EngraulidaeFamily: Engraulidae Order: Order: Clupeiformes  (herrings)  (herrings)

Class: Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) fishes)

Fish Base name: Fish Base name: Japanese Japanese anchovyanchovy

Max. size: Max. size: 18.0 cm TL 18.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; max. published (male/unsexed; max. published weight: 45.0 g weight: 45.0 g

Environment: Environment: pelagic; pelagic; oceanodromous ; depth range 0 - oceanodromous ; depth range 0 - 400 m 400 m

Climate: Climate: temperate; 8 - 30°C; 49°N temperate; 8 - 30°C; 49°N - 7°S- 7°S

Global Importance: Global Importance: fisheries: fisheries: highly commercial; aquaculture: highly commercial; aquaculture: commercial; bait: usuallycommercial; bait: usually

Resilience:  Resilience:  High, minimum High, minimum population doubling time less than population doubling time less than 15 months15 months

Distribution: Distribution: Western Pacific: Western Pacific: southern Sakhalin Islands, Sea of southern Sakhalin Islands, Sea of Japan and Pacific coasts of Japan and Pacific coasts of Japan, and south to almost Japan, and south to almost Canton/Taiwan; rare records Canton/Taiwan; rare records (seems to represent stray fishes) (seems to represent stray fishes) off the coasts of Luzon and off the coasts of Luzon and Western Mindanao, Philippines Western Mindanao, Philippines and from Manado and Ujung and from Manado and Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Pandang, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Eco-information: Eco-information: E.japonicusE.japonicus

Economic ImportanceEconomic Importance

ExploitationExploitation

Methods of HarvestingMethods of Harvesting

Engraulis japonicusEngraulis japonicus::Determining the population Determining the population

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Acoustic SurveillanceAcoustic Surveillance

Trawling CatchesTrawling Catches

DEPM (Daily Egg Production Method)DEPM (Daily Egg Production Method)

Airborne Oceanic Lidar Survey SystemsAirborne Oceanic Lidar Survey Systems

ReferencesStylianos Somarakisa, Isabel Palomera, Alberto Garcia, Luis Quintanilla, Constantin Koutsikopoulos, Andrés Uriarte and Lorenzo Motos Daily egg production of anchovy in European waters.

Yorgos Stratoudakis, Miguel Bernal, Konstantinos Ganias, Andrés Uriarte (2006) The daily egg production method: recent advances, current applications and future challenges Fish and Fisheries 7 (1) , 35–57 doi:10.1111/j.1467-2979.2006.00206.x

Tai-Sheng Chiu, Yann-Jium Lee, Shiao-Wei Huang, Hon-Tsen Yu (2002) Polymorphic microsatellite markers for stock identification in Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonica) Molecular Ecology Notes 2 (1) , 49–50 doi:10.1046/j.1471-8286.2002.00142.x

Stylianos Somarakis, Constantin Koutsikopoulos, Athanassios Machias and Nikolaos Tsimenides. Applying the daily egg production method (DEPM) to small stocks in highly heterogeneous seas Fisheries ResearchVolume 55, Issues 1-3, March 2002, Pages 193-204 doi:10.1016/S0165-7836(01)00284-3

Nancy C.H. Lo, John R. and James H. Churnside HunterModelling the statistical performance of an airborne lidar survey system for anchovy