Demersal trawl sampling, representing 2 hydrographic seasons,were carried out in spring and autumn at stations distributed in the inshore waters of Guangdong Province.Ordinations of fish samples were derived,separately for the 2 hydrographic seasons, from multidimensional scsling of percentage dissimilarity matrices. The community patterns and their seasonal differences revealed by the ordinations are well correlated with the distributions and variations of the coastal and off shore water systems.In both se...