Assessing the biomass of small fish with a split-beam sonar in the Murray River, Australia

Fisheries Research

Volumn 88, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 139-145

  Matveev, Vladimir F ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Fish biomass; Push net; River; Sonar

Indexed keywords

CLUPEIDAE; NEMATALOSA EREBI; RETROPINNA SEMONI;

EID: 35948967235     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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