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Uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) survey of walleye pollock, Gadus chalcogrammus, in response to the cancellation of ship-based surveys

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ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
卷 78, 期 8, 页码 2797-2808

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsab155

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acoustic survey; echo survey; Gadus chalcogrammus; Uncrewed surface vehicle; USV; walleye pollock

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  1. NOAA Fisheries' Office of Science and Technology
  2. Alaska Fisheries Science Center

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In 2020, disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of fisheries surveys, including the largest fishery in the United States for walleye pollock. To compensate for the lost information, uncrewed surface vehicles equipped with echosounders were deployed to extend the acoustic-trawl time series of pollock abundance. This innovative approach combined historical surveys with data from USVs to provide a consistent fishery-independent index for stock assessment when ship-based surveys were not feasible.
In 2020, the developing COVID-19 pandemic disrupted fisheries surveys to an unprecedented extent. Many surveys were cancelled, including those for walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) in the eastern Bering Sea (EBS), the largest fishery in the United States. To partially mitigate the loss of survey information, we deployed three uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) equipped with echosounders to extend the ship-based acoustic-trawl time series of pollock abundance. Trawling was not possible from USVs, so an empirical relationship between pollock backscatter and biomass established from previous surveys was developed to convert USV backscatter observations into pollock abundance. The EBS is well suited for this approach since pollock dominate midwater fishes in the survey area. Acoustic data from the USVs were combined with historical surveys to provide a consistent fishery-independent index in 2020. This application demonstrates the unique capabilities of USVs and how they could be rapidly deployed to collect information on pollock abundance and distribution when a ship-based survey was not feasible. We note the limitations of this approach (e.g. higher uncertainty relative to previous ship-based surveys), but found the USV survey to be useful in informing the stock assessment in a situation where ship-based surveys were not possible.

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