Quality assurance of hydroacoustic surveys: The repeatability of fish-abundance and biomass estimates in lakes within and between hydroacoustic systems

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 486-492

  Wanzenböck, Josef ^a   Mehner, Thomas ^b   Schulz, Michael ^b   Gassner, Hubert ^c   Winfield, Ian J ^d  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c Federal Agency for Water Management   (Austria)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparison; Coregonus sp.; Echosounding systems

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; BIOMASS;

AUSTRIA; BRANDENBURG; GERMANY; IRRSEE; LAKE STECHLIN;

ALBULA; COREGONUS; COREGONUS ALBULA; COREGONUS LAVARETUS;

EID: 0037899533     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-3139(03)00030-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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