Quantifying and reducing the surface blind zone and the seabed dead zone using new technology

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1370-1376

  Totland, Atle ^a   Johansen, Geir O ^a   Godø, Olav R ^a   Ona, Egil ^a   Torkelsen, Terje ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Autonomous systems; Blind zone; Dead zone; Fisheries acoustics

Indexed keywords

GADIFORMES;

EID: 77952120668     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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