期刊
ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
卷 70, 期 1, 页码 196-203出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fss139
关键词
acoustics; aggregation; Atlantic herring; midwater trawling; pelagic
资金
- National Marine Fisheries Service Herring Research-Set-Aside Program [NOAA/NA08NMF4540429]
- Office Of The Director
- Office of Integrative Activities [1101317] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Stockwell, J. D., Weber, T. C., Baukus, A. J., and Jech, J. M. 2013. On the use of omnidirectional sonars and downwards-looking echosounders to assess pelagic fish distributions during and after midwater trawling. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70:196-203. Small pelagic fish can play an important role in the structure and function of ecosystems, and there is increasing interest in their non-market value. At the scale of fish aggregations, however, the impact of fishing has received relatively little attention, with most effort devoted to impacts of vessel and gear avoidance on stock size estimates. We used concurrent deployment of a downwards-looking echosounder (Simrad ES60 system) and an omnidirectional sonar (Simrad SP90 system) during commercial pairtrawling operations for Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) in the Gulf of Maine to examine their potential for studying the impacts of fishing on herring aggregations. We compared a number of aggregation metrics to illustrate similarities and differences between the two systems, and then qualitatively examined their properties during and after pairtrawling events to illustrate potential applications. Our results suggest that using both downwards-looking and omnidirectional systems provides complementary information on fish aggregation metrics. Future applications of these systems in beforeaftercontrol-impact (BACI) designs may help inform management agencies when evaluating potential impacts of fishing at the time and space scales of pelagic fish aggregations.
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