Joint use of echosounding, fishing and video techniques to assess the structure of fish aggregations around moored Fish Aggregating Devices in Martinique (Lesser Antilles)

Aquatic Living Resources

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 357-366

  Doray, Mathieu ^a,d   Josse, Erwan ^a   Gervain, Paul ^b   Reynal, Lionel ^c   Chantrel, Josselin ^c  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^b POLKA ^*  (Guadeloupe)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Aggregative behaviour; Fish aggregating device; Lesser Antilles; Small scale fishery; Tuna; Underwater video

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BAIT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; ECHO SOUNDER; FINFISH; FISH AGGREGATING DEVICE; FISHERY SURVEY; FISHING COMMUNITY; PELAGIC FISH; PREDATOR; PREY PREFERENCE; TUNA FISHERY; UNDERWATER CAMERA; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; MARTINIQUE; WINDWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

CARANGIDAE; CARANX CRYSOS; KATSUWONUS PELAMIS; MAKAIRA NIGRICANS; PISCES; SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS ALBACARES; THUNNUS ATLANTICUS;

EID: 39749139492     PISSN: 09907440     EISSN: 17652952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/alr:2008004     Document Type: Article

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