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NSYSU research team records over 1000 sea turtles
around Taiping Island

The research team of Professor Keryea Soong of the Department
of Oceanography counted the sea turtles around Taiping Island,
the southernmost territory of the Republic of China. The team used
drones to take bird's-eye views along around 1 km of the coastline
of the island, up to 400 m off the coast, and spotted around 200
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sea turtles on a total area of 0.2 km and estimated that over one
最新發現！ thousand sea turtles live around the island's reef flat covering an
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太平島估有千隻海龜現蹤 area of 1.6 km . This number is much higher than the number of
sea turtles around Little Liuchiu of just over 100 individuals.
世界最美的「海龜島嶼」在哪？
海洋科學系宋克義教授研究團隊
透過空拍機，調查太平島周邊的
海龜數量，團隊以固定高度、沿
著 1 公里長的航線，拍攝面積約
0.2 平方公里的區域，發現有將
近 200 隻的海龜，因此估計在太
平島周邊礁台 1.06 平方公里範
圍內，有上千隻海龜活動，遠超
過被稱為全球海龜密度最高、有
上百隻海龜棲息的小琉球。

守護台江生態
公布首波海域調研結果

海洋科學系陳孟仙主任與劉祖 Results of first research on Taijiang National Park
乾特聘教授於「台江國家公園 marine environment announced
海洋保育研討會」發表研究成
Chairperson of the Department of Oceanography, Professor
果，首次揭露台江國家公園成立 Meng-Hsien Chen and Distinguished Professor James T. Liu
後，第一筆海域生態基線關鍵資 gave speeches during the Conference on Taijiang National Park
料。研究團隊調查 73 種魚類、 Conservation presenting the results of their research and providing
28 種蝦類及 37 種蟹類新紀錄 the first key baseline information on the marine ecosystem of
種發現，七股沿海和黑水溝各類 Taijiang National Park since its establishment in 2009. The research
別海洋生物的種類差異很大。此 recorded 73 species of fish, 28 species of shrimps, and 37 species
外，仔細比對在七股沿海的魚、 of crabs in this area. The assemblages of the marine organisms
蝦及蟹種類組成，也發現 10 年 inhabit the Chiku coastal area and Pescadores Channel differently.
間明顯的變化。魚種優勢種中， Conducting a detailed comparison, it was discovered that in the
高體大鱗鮃、準大頭狗母魚明顯 past 10 years a great change occurred in the population of different
species of fish, shrimps, and crabs of the Chiku coastal area. As for
減少；而寬條鸚天竺鯛、黑斑圓
the dominant species of fish, the population of Tarphops oligolepis
鱗鰨（俗稱比目魚）明顯增加。
and Trachinocephalus myops has decreased, while the number
of Ostorhinchus fasciatus and Liachirus melanospilos (also called
'flatfish') has considerably risen.

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