Using acoustics to estimate the fish-length selectivity of trawl mesh

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1558-1565

  Somerton, David A ^a   Williams, Kresimir ^a   Von Szalay, Paul G ^a   Rose, Craig S ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

fish length selection; hydroacoustics; trawl selectivity; walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACOUSTIC DATA; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GADOID FISHERY; MARICULTURE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MESH SIZE; PROBABILITY; TRAWL NET;

BERING SEA; GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CARNIVORA; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 79959502583     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr083     Document Type: Article

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