To assess the impact of the marine environment on the community of fish eggs in Daya Bay, we collected fish egg samples across four seasons during 2022. A total of 51 species of fish eggs were gathered. The fish egg community exhibited significant seasonal and spatial variations. The number of fish egg species was highest in spring and lowest in winter, while overall abundance peaked during summer. The abundance of eggs from l...

Identifying fish eggs and understanding fish reproductive periods are necessary for informed fishery management. However, accurate the identification of fish eggs is difficult because eggs have few distinct characters, and their morphology varies ontogenetically. Using cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, we identified fish eggs from ichthyoplankton samples collected in the summer and autumn of 2021 from southwestern Daya Bay, Chin...