Review: DNA metabarcoding approach for fisheries management

Abstract

Increased publications on meta-barcoding promote interests in studies associated with fisheries biodiversity, diet, and biomonitoring. These studies primarily concentrated on an ecosystem that has implications for fisheries management with complex interpretation. Various theories have arisen to describe the interactions among aquatic species and eventually contribute to the roles they play in ecology. Identifying organisms is also a prerequisite for answering questions in the field of ecology, which shows that reliable and accurate knowledge is important and desirable. Therefore, as a modern molecular technique, metabarcoding provides a realistic approach that lets ecologists analyze organisms in complex environmental samples and rapidly solve the problem associated with the food web in the coral reef ecosystem. This research explores the use of metabarcoding in fisheries management research and highlights the drawback and value of the future process.