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Yet how farming systems affect their fish communities\u2014and which metrics best capture those effects\u2014remains poorly quantified in Asia. We compared fish assemblages between eco-friendly and conventional rice paddies in South Korea across the 2015 rice growing season (May\u2013September), sampling 94 events by fyke net in Dangjin City (2704 individuals; 13 species) and analyzing the data with generalized linear mixed models and multivariate methods. Eco-friendly paddies supported 2.3-fold higher abundance and 2.6-fold higher biomass; differences were negligible in May (Cohen\u2019s d \u2248 0) but large from June onward (d &gt; 1.0), with a moderate-to-large pooled effect (d = 0.76\u20130.89). Community composition differed significantly (PERMANOVA), and eco-friendly assemblages were more consistent among fields (PERMDISP). Carassius auratus and Misgurnus anguillicaudatus were 10.8- and 2.7-fold more abundant under eco-friendly management, whereas \u03b1-diversity indices (richness, Shannon, Simpson, evenness) showed no differences, as three taxa comprised over 90% of the catch. In these species-poor, dominance-skewed systems, abundance-based and species-specific metrics detected management effects more sensitively than \u03b1-diversity indices, complementing rather than replacing them. Because these results derive from a single growing season in one region, however, they should be regarded as specific to comparable systems and require multi-year, multi-region validation before their use in biomonitoring and eco-friendly agricultural policy can be generalized.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/biology15161411","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,17]],"date-time":"2026-08-17T10:04:36Z","timestamp":1786961076000},"page":"1411","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Fish Assemblages Distinguish Eco-Friendly from Conventional Rice Paddies Through Abundance and Biomass Rather than Diversity"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Byung-Mo","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Climate Change Assessment Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Wanju 55365, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5590-6622","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Myung-Hyun","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Apiculture Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Wanju 55365, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3494-5371","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Soon-kun","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Climate Change Assessment Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Wanju 55365, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jinu","family":"Eo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Climate Change Assessment Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Wanju 55365, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sang-Min","family":"Jun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Climate Change Assessment Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Wanju 55365, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"FAO (2026). 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