The author wants to highlight the important role of mesopelagic fish in the conservation of marine living resources. Therefore, in order to further clarify and focus research point on the conservation of marine living resources, the authors replaced the MPA with the protected areas, and slightly modified several other vague places. In these corrections, most of them are the replacement of the terms. The original article has been corrected. The text “marine protected areas” is replaced with “conservation areas for marine living resources” in the title, Line 2–3. The text "the Marine protected areas" is replaced with "mesopelagic fish" in Line 24. The text "the MPA with protected areas" is replaced in Line 10, Line 23, Line 359, Line 370, Line 508, Line 519, Line 546, Line 547, Line 549, Line 552, Line 554, Line 556, Line 558, Line 562, Line 566, Line 769, Several vague places using protected areas are slightly modified in Line 15, Line 20, Line 21, Line 22, Line 155–156, Line 331–332, Line 356–357, Line 359, Line 361, Line 363, Line 365–366, Line 504, Line 505, Line 506, Line 513, Line 783–784. For replacement of the MPA using protected areas, the Fig. 7 and legend are modified without the change of the numbers. (Figure presented.) The text “marine protected areas” is replaced with “conservation areas for marine living resources” in the title in Supplementary information.