Western part of Seto Inland Sea

Tidal flat zones in Suou-nada open sea and seagrass meadows in Aki-nada open sea, western part of Seto Inland Sea

Organization

Tidal Zone Environment Section, National Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Fisheries Research Agency

Research Theme

Understanding a metapopulation dynamics of seaweeds, large-sized brown algae, and bivalves

Site Outline

Total tidal flat area is 69.47 km² in Suou-nada open sea (longitude from 130^o56 to 131^o48 east，latitude from 33^o34 to 34^o00 north) where total area is 2498.79 km², whereas total area of seagrass meadows is 10.45 km² in Aki-nada open sea (longitude from 132^o07 to 133^o28 east，latitude from 33^o45 to 34^o22 north) where total area is 2242.03 km².

Contact

• Address : National Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Fisheries Research Agency, 2-17-5 Maruishi, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0452, JAPAN
• Name : Masami Hamaguchi
• Phone : 0829-54-3463
• Fax : 0829-54-1216
• E-mail : masami@affrc.go.jp

• Address : National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, 2-12-4 Fukuura, Kanazawa, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-8648, Japan
• Name : Masakazu Hori
• Phone : 045-788-7902
• Fax : 045-788-5001
• E-mail : mhori@affrc.go.jp

WWW site URL

Japanese : http://www.nnf.affrc.go.jp/

English : http://feis.fra.affrc.go.jp/eng/eindex.html

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