Recording fish schools by multi-beam sonar: Potential for validating and supplementing echo integration recordings of schooling fish

Fisheries Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 149-159

  Misund, Ole Arve ^a   Coetzee, Janet ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b Rogge Bay 8012   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Echo integration; Fish density; Pilchard; Sonar

Indexed keywords

FISH; FISHERY SURVEY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR; SONAR; SONAR IMAGERY;

EID: 0034086057     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(00)00166-1     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Barange M., Hampton I., Soule M.A. Empirical determination of in situ target strengths of three loosely aggregated pelagic fish species. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 53:1996;225-232.
2. Foote K.G., Knudsen H.P., Korneliussen R.J., Nordbø P.E., Røang K. Postprocessing system for echo sounder data. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90(1):1991;37-47.
3. Fréon P., Soria M., Mullon C., Gerlotto F. Diurnal variation in fish density estimates during surveys in relation to spatial distribution and avoidance reaction. Aquat. Living. Resour. 6(3):1993;221-234.
4. Hewitt R., Smith P.E., Brown J.C. Developments and use of sonar mapping for pelagic stock assessments in the California current. Fish. Bull. US. 74:1976;281-300.
5. Lamboeuf M., Burcynski J., Bencherifi M., Chbani M., Elminowicz A. Evaluation acoustique de la biomasse de stocks de sardine au Maroc de 1979 à 1981. Combinaison des estimations du sonar et du sondeur vertical. FAO Fish. Rep. 300:1983;197-207.
6. Love R.H. A model for estimating distributions of fish school target strengths. Deep-sea Res. 28(7):1981;705-725.
7. MacLennan, D.N., Simmonds, E.J., 1992. Fisheries Acoustics. Chapman and Hall, London, 325 pp.
8. Misund O.A. Abundance estimation of fish schools based on a relationship between school area and school biomass. Aquat. Living Resour. 6:1993;179-194.
9. Misund O.A., Aglen A. Swimming behaviour of fish schools in the North Sea during acoustic surveying and pelagic trawl sampling. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 49:1992;325-334.
10. Misund O.A., Aglen A., Beltestad A.K., Dalen J. Relationships between the geometric dimensions and biomass of schools. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 49:1992;305-315.
11. Misund, O.A., Totland, B., Floen, S., Aglen, A., 1994. Computer-based detection of schools by multi-beam sonar. In: Bjørnø, L. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Underwater Acoustics. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 815-820.
12. Misund, O.A., Aglen, A., Frønæs, E., 1995. Mapping the shape, size and density of fish schools by echo integration and a high-resolution sonar. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 52.
13. Misund O.A., Øvredal J.T., Hafsteinsson M.T. Reactions of herring schools to the sound field of a survey vessel. Aquat. Living Resour. 9:1996;5-11.
14. Misund, O.A., Coatzee, J., Fréon, P., Gardener, M., Olsen, K., Hampton, I., 2000. Schooling behaviour of southern African Sardine (Sardinops Sagax) in False Bay, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Mar. Sci., (in press).
15. Mitson, R.B., 1983. Fisheries Sonar. Fishing News Books Ltd., Farnham, 287 pp.
16. Olsen K., Angell J., Løvik A. Quantitative estimations of the influence of fish behaviour on acoustically determined fish abundance. FAO Fish. Rep. 300:1983;139-148.
17. Ona, E., 1994. Recent developments of acoustic instrumentation in connection with fish capture and abundance estimation. In: Fernø, A., Olsen, S. (Eds.), Marine Fish Behaviour in Capture and Abundance Estimation. Fishing News Books Ltd., Oxford, pp. 200-216.
18. SAS 1988. SAS Institute Inc. SAS/STAT™ User's Guide, Release 6.03 Edition, Cary, NC, 1028 pp.
19. Soria M., Fréon P., Gerlotto F. Analysis of vessel influence on spatial behaviour of fish schools using a multi-beam sonar and consequences for biomass estimates by echo-sounder. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 53:1996;453-458.
20. Wheeler, J.P., Winters, G.H., 1990. The development of hydroacoustic techniques for the empirical estimation of biomass for Newfoundland herring stocks. In: Proceedings of the International Herring Symposium, Anchorage, AK, October 23-25, 1990, pp. 145-162.