Autonomous video camera system for monitoring impacts to benthic habitats from demersal fishing gear, including longlines

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 486-491

  Kilpatrick, Robert ^a   Ewing, Graeme ^a   Lamb, Tim ^a   Welsford, Dirk ^a   Constable, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benthos; Deep sea camera; Deep sea video; Demersal longline; Demersal trawl; Dissostichus spp.; Effects of fishing; Elephant seal; Krill; Southern ocean; Toothfish

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; DEEP SEA; DEEP SEA VIDEO; DEMERSAL LONGLINE; DEMERSAL TRAWL; DISSOSTICHUS SPP.; EFFECTS OF FISHING; ELEPHANT SEAL; KRILL; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TOOTHFISH;

CAMERAS; ECOSYSTEMS; MAMMALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNDERWATER CAMERAS; UNDERWATER STRUCTURES; VIDEO CAMERAS;

FISHERIES;

BENTHOS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CRUSTACEAN; DEEP SEA; DEMERSAL FISH; FINFISH; FISHING GEAR; FISHING INDUSTRY; HABITAT TYPE; LONGLINING; PERCIFORM; PINNIPED; VIDEOGRAPHY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DISSOSTICHUS; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; MIROUNGA;

EID: 79952814518     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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