Use and limits of three methods for assessing fish size spectra and fish abundance in two tropical man-made lakes

Fisheries Research

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 306-318

  Coll, Céline ^a   Morais, Luis Tito de ^b   Laë, Raymond ^a   Lebourges Dhaussy, Anne ^a   Simier, Monique ^b   Guillard, Jean ^d   Josse, Erwan ^a   Ecoutin, Jean Marc ^c   Albaret, Jean Jacques ^c   Raffray, Jean ^a   Kantoussan, Justin ^a  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^d UMR CARRTEL   (France)

Author keywords

Abundance estimate; Artisanal fisheries; Fish sampling; Hydroacoustic; Shallow waters; Size distribution; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ACOUSTIC METHOD; ARTISANAL FISHERY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; FISHING EFFORT; GILLNET; LAKE; SAMPLING BIAS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AFRICA; KAYES; LAKE MANANTALI; LAKE SELINGUE; MALI; SIKASSO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33845756275     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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