Title Page
Contents
Abstract 7
Introduction 9
Materials and Methods 12
1. Plankton sample collection 12
1.1. Study Site 13
2. Morphological sorting and counting of fish larvae and eggs 14
3. Molecular Identification of ichthyoplankton 15
Results 17
1. Fish eggs abundance, distribution and composition 17
2. Fish larvae abundance, distribution and composition 23
Discussion 32
1. Fish eggs occurrence in Ulleung and Dokdo Islands 34
2. Fish larvae occurrence in Ulleung and Dokdo Islands 36
3. Significant findings 38
References 41
Table 1. Summary of fish eggs collected from Ulleung and Dokdo islands in 2016 19
Table 2. Molecular identification of fish eggs collected from Ulleung and Dokdo... 20
Table 3. Summary of fish larvae collected from Ulleung and Dokdo islands in 2016 25
Table 4. Molecular identification of fish larvae collected from Ulleung and Dokdo... 26
Fig. 1. Sampling stations around Ulleung and Dokdo Islands 13
Fig. 2. Spatial and temporal distribution of fish eggs 21
Fig. 3. Species proportions of fish eggs collected from Ulleung and Dokdo islands... 22
Fig. 4. Spatial and temporal distribution of fish larvae 30
Fig. 5. Species proportions of fish larvae collected from Ulleung and Dokdo... 31