Comparison of fish size distribution and fish abundance estimates obtained with hydroacoustics and gill netting in the open water of a large shallow lake

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 231-240

  Tatrai I ^a   Specziar A ^a   Gyorgy A I ^a,b   Biro P ^a  

^a BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Fish abundance and biomass; Gillnet catches; Horizontal beaming; Shallow lake; Split beam echo sounding

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ACOUSTIC METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GILLNET; LAKE; OPEN WATER; SHALLOW WATER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ABRAMIS BRAMA; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA;

EID: 58149260257     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn:2008007     Document Type: Article

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