Effects of acoustic alarms, designed to reduce small cetacean bycatch in gillnet fisheries, on the behaviour of North Sea fish species in a large tank

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 160-180

  Kastelein, Ronald A ^a   van der Heul, Sander ^a   van der Veen, Jan ^b   Verboom, Willem C ^c   Jennings, Nancy ^d   de Haan, Dick ^e   Reijnders, Peter J H ^e  

^a Sea Mammal Research Company SEAMARCO   (Netherlands)

^b Sea aquarium Het Arsenaal   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Cetaceans; Cod; Ecology; Herring; Noise pollution; Odontocetes; Pingers; Pout; Sea bass; Thicklip mullet; Underwater sound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIODIVERSITY; FISH PONDS; MARINE BIOLOGY; NOISE POLLUTION;

CETACEAN BYCATCH; CETACEANS; GILLNET FISHERIES; PINGER; THICKLIP MULLET; UNDERWATER SOUND;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ALARM SIGNAL; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BYCATCH; CETACEAN; GADOID; GILLNET; PERCIFORM; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BEHAVIOR; CETACEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GILLNET FISHERY; NONHUMAN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BASS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CETACEA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHERIES; FISHES; GADIFORMES; GADUS MORHUA; NORTH SEA; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

CETACEA; CHELON LABROSUS; CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; GADUS MORHUA; SERRANIDAE; TRISOPTERUS LUSCUS;

EID: 34250855046     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2006.12.012     Document Type: Article

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