Determining fish size and swimming speed in cages and tanks using simple video techniques

Aquacultural Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 63-84

  Petrell, R J ^a   Shi, X ^a   Ward, R K ^a   Naiberg, A ^b   Savage, C R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Range Vision Inc   (Canada)

^c Byssus Communications Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Netcages; Salmonids; Size distribution; Stereo vision

Indexed keywords

SALMONIDAE;

AQUACULTURE APPLICATIONS; BODY SIZE; SWIMMING; SWIMMING SPEED; VIDEO; VIDEOTAPE RECORDINGS;

EID: 0030772461     PISSN: 01448609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0144-8609(96)01014-X     Document Type: Article

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