Nishi-nagisa in Kasai Marine Park, located in the inner Tokyo Bay, is an artificial tidal flat developed in 1988 in Edogawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The tidal flat consists of about 15 ha of tideland and 23 ha of sea area, and faces south to Tokyo Bay. Annual samplings of fishes using a small seine net and physical environment surveys were carried out in the tidal flat from April 1999 to December 2020. A total of 299,609 individuals of over 70 species belonging to 35 families were collected. Marine fishes dominated in the number of species, and estuarine fishes dominated in the number of individuals for 22 years. Cluster analysis and NMDS showed that the community
structure was divided into three groups (around 2000, mid to late 2000s, and after 2010), with correlated species in each group. Diversity index has shown a slight upward trend in recent
years, with higher than other closed artificial tidal flats in the inner Tokyo Bay. The tidal flat provides suitable habitat for
Gymnogobius macrognathos(endangered species). Our study suggests that the tidal flat is changing the ichthyofauna while being influenced by the species that occur in Tokyo Bay, providing habitat for a variety of fish species, including endangered species.
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