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Analyzing an organism\u2019s habits and examining their causes requires a thorough understanding of the peculiarities of an organism\u2019s living environments. Analyzing the environmental factors necessary for an organism\u2019s survival is a crucial component of studying how the environment and biology interact. The favorable temperature range for the species has been discovered in previous investigations of the hairtails\u2019 main water temperature distribution range, covering both the water regions with and without the hairtails. It is implied that there may be other elements besides water temperature that also affect dispersion. The hairtail, though, is still the subject of the study. To investigate and confirm the corollaries, salinity and water depth were added as variables. We observed that the intersection of the main ranges of two environmental factors, as well as the main hairtail range of interest, were greatly reduced when compared to a single factor range; the sum of the three factors will further increase the reduction. The primary cause is that the main range of hairtail relative to each factor is incomplete, and the target bodies specified by various factors are very varied. To further investigate the factors that affect the distribution of the organism\u2019s active areas, a comparison between aggregated and non-aggregated waters relative to one factor can be done in the next step. A good sequence of environmental elements, namely temperature&gt;salinity&gt;water depth, is obtained in the above analysis procedure by comparing the accuracy and significance of each factor for the primary range of the hairtail. Additionally, it was noted that the main population of the hairtail covered different areas depending on the season, with less coverage in spring and autumn and greater coverage in summer and winter. The main part of the hairtail population also tended to be distributed closer to the coast in summer and winter, and farther offshore in spring and autumn. These seasonal variations may be related to the two distinct reproductive cycles of hairtail, occuring in spring and autumn.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/biology12071009","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,17]],"date-time":"2023-07-17T00:35:04Z","timestamp":1689554104000},"page":"1009","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Analyzing the Combined Effect of Multiple Environmental Factors on Fish Distribution, by Means of the Mixed Distribution\u2013Decomposition Approach, as Illustrated by the East China Sea Hairtail"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Yong","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of East China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation and Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Shanghai 200090, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jia-Hua","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of East China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation and Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Shanghai 200090, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"181","article-title":"An approach to the relationship between the squid fishing ground and water temperature in the Northwestern Pacific","volume":"4","author":"Chen","year":"1995","journal-title":"J. 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