Measuring herring densities with one real and several phantom research vessels

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1264-1269

  Patel, Ruben ^a   Ona, Egil ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Echosounder; Herring; Simrad EK60; Simrad MS70; Three dimensional sonar

Indexed keywords

CLUPEIDAE;

EID: 77955735283     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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