Acoustic detection of mesoscale biophysical features in the Shelikof sea valley, and their relevance to pollock larvae in the Gulf of Alaska

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages 71-80

  Brodeur, Richard D ^a   Napp, Jeffrey M ^a   Wilson, Matthew T ^a   Bograd, Steven J ^a,b   Cokelet, Edward D ^a   Schumacher, James D ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

acoustics; frontal zones; walleye pollock; zooplankton

Indexed keywords

POLLACHIUS VIRENS; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; ACOUSTICS; BIOPHYSICAL FEATURE; CURRENT OBSERVATION; CURRENT OBSERVATIONS; EDDIES; EDDY; FISH; FISH LARVA; LARVAL DISTRIBUTION; WALLEYE POLLOCK; ZOOPLANKTON;

GULF OF ALASKA, SHELIKOF STRAIT; PACIFIC, GULF OF ALASKA, SHELIKOF STRAIT; USA, ALASKA, SHELIKOF STRAIT;

EID: 0030302197     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.1996.tb00083.x     Document Type: Review

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