Fish community of rocky shores of Kuala Abang, Terengganu

Abstract

Determination of abundance, composition and diversity of fish inhabits the rocky shore at Kuala Abang and Seberang Pintasan, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia were done by both active and passive removal techniques from August to December successfully collected and recorded about 22 families consist of 46 species. From the total amount of individual caught, Blenniidae is the most dominant family in terms of number of species collected (19.6%). Gobiidae is the most abundant family in terms of number of individuals recorded with 44.1 %. Habitats in both locations have no significant differences (p=0.908) with similar family being captured due to similarity in habitat, water depth and also environmental variables. Ecological indices such as Shannon, Simpson, Margalef, Menhinick, Hill and Evenness were computed to assess and to compare the fish abw1dance, composition and diversity of Kuala Abang and Seberang Pintasan rocky shores, where both locations give similar results with only slight differences. Sorenson's Index of Similarity indicate a low affinity (44.1 %) between both site indicating that there were only a few species that the two sites share in common. However, /-test does not show a significant difference between the two locations with (p = 0.908). Factors contributing to no significant difference condition were discussed and some recommendations were made.