Using acoustic backscatter from a sidescan sonar to explain fish and invertebrate distributions: A case study in Bristol Bay, Alaska

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 242-254

  Yeung, Cynthia ^a   McConnaughey, Robert A ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic backscatter; Benthic invertebrates; Bering Sea; Groundfish; Habitat; Trawl survey

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACKSCATTER; BENTHOS; CRAB; ECHINODERM; FLATFISH; GADOID; HABITAT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SIDESCAN SONAR; SPONGE; SURVEY; TRAWLING;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; BRISTOL BAY; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

GADUS MACROCEPHALUS; GORGONOCEPHALUS EUCNEMIS; HIPPOGLOSSOIDES ELASSODON; INVERTEBRATA; LIMULUS; OPHIUROIDEA; PARALITHODES CAMTSCHATICUS; PORIFERA; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 44649176439     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsn011     Document Type: Article

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