Revised estimates of abundance of South African sardine and anchovy from acoustic surveys adjusting for echosounder saturation in earlier surveys and attenuation effects for sardine

African Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 219-232

  De Moor, C L ^a   Butterworth, D S ^a   Coetzee, J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acoustic survey; Anchovy; Attenuation; Calibration adjustment; Regression; Sardine; Saturation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; CALIBRATION; CLUPEOID; ECHO SOUNDER; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATURATION; TIME SERIES;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS; SARDINOPS SAGAX;

EID: 55549137082     PISSN: 1814232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/AJMS.2008.30.2.2.552     Document Type: Article

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