抄録
In the previous paper the general plan of the present investigation and the methods used in the survey were given in detail and also the floating seaweeds in the sea to the west of Kyushu in May of 1964 were arranged into nineteen groups, mainly on the basis of the observations from the aeroplane. In the present paper those floating seaweeds are quantitatively dealt with, based on the data from eye-measurement and aerial photograph.
The results obtained are as follows:
1) According to the aerial photographs, most of the floating seaweeds were less than 10m2 in area or 80kg in weight, and the largest of the rest was as much as 136m2 in area, as shown in Fig. 4.
2) Estimated amount of the floating seaweeds in the sea are given by each group in Table 2. In total, they measured about 52, 000m2 in area or 407 metric ton in weight.
3) The distribution density of the floating seaweeds was 10.1kg/km2 in the region to the north of N 32°30', 10.9kg/km2 in the region between N 32°30' and N 31°30', and only 0.3kg/km2 in the region to the south of N 31°30', and that in the area to the east off the Fukueshima of the Goto Islands was 114.1kg/km2, which was locally the highest.
Judging from the various facts, it can be said that the amount of the floating seaweeds in the spring of 1964 was less than that of the normal year.
4) The relation between the area and the weight of the floating seaweeds is given by the equation (2), namely, W=7.89×A; where W is weight in kg of floating seaweed and A, area in m2.