How pulse lengths impact fish stock estimations during hydroacoustic measurements at 70 kHz

Aquatic Living Resources

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-78

  Godlewska, Małgorzata ^a,b   Colon, Michel ^c   Jóźwik, Adam ^d   Guillard, Jean ^c  

^a INLAND FISHERIES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b EUROPEAN REGIONAL CENTRE FOR ECOHYDROLOGY OF THE POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c UMR CARRTEL   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fish stock; Freshwater fish; Hydroacoustics; Lake; Pulse length; WFD

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BACKSCATTER; BIOMASS; DATA SET; ECHO SOUNDER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; INDEX METHOD; LENGTH-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SURVEY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLUME;

LAKE HANCZA; PODLASKIE; POLAND;

EID: 79961106223     PISSN: 09907440     EISSN: 17652952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/alr/2011104     Document Type: Article

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