Testing in situ avoidance reaction of vendace, Coregonus albula, in relation to continuous artificial light from stationary vertical split-beam echosounding

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 376-385

  Schmidt, M B ^a   Balk, H ^b   Gassner, H ^c  

^a Fischereiverband Nordrhein Westfalen   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Institute of Freshwater Ecology   (Austria)

Author keywords

Avoidance behaviour; Bottom outlets; Entrainment loss; Hydroacoustics; Reservoir

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; ECHO SOUNDING; ENTRAINMENT; IN SITU TEST;

COREGONUS ALBULA;

EID: 70349880444     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2009.00689.x     Document Type: Article

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