Silent ships do not always encounter more fish (revisited): Comparison of acoustic backscatter from walleye pollock recorded by a noise-reduced and a conventional research vessel in the eastern Bering Sea

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2229-2239

  De Robertis, Alex ^a   Wilson, Christopher D ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustics; noise reduced vessel; vessel avoidance response; walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BACKSCATTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHO SOUNDER; FISHERY SURVEY; GADOID; NOISE; RECONSTRUCTION; RESEARCH VESSEL; SURVEYING;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

POLLACHIUS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 80054090582     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr146     Document Type: Article

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