Efficient trawl avoidance by mesopelagic fishes causes large underestimation of their biomass

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 456, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-6

  Kaartvedt, Stein ^a,b   Staby, Arved ^c   Aksnes, Dag L ^c  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Avoidance behavior; Mesopelagic fish; Trawling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACOUSTIC IMAGERY; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BIOMASS; FISH CULTURE; GLOBAL CHANGE; MARICULTURE; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; SAMPLING; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BENTHOSEMA GLACIALE; MYCTOPHIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 84862173244     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09785     Document Type: Article

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