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FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGY
卷 12, 期 4, 页码 237-247出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2005.00445.x
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Anguilla; baits; depletion fishing; eels; electric fishing; fyke nets
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Fyke netting is a convenient and effective technique for capturing freshwater eels, and catch-per-unit-effort is usually assumed to be an index of eel abundance. The present study investigated the potential of depletion fishing using baited fyke nets to obtain population estimates of longfin eels Anguilla dieffenbachii Gray, in a river in the South Island of New Zealand. The probability of capture (capture efficiency) of a single night's fishing increased with increasing size of eel, and ranged from 0.2 to 0.9 for eels < 400 mm, to 0.7-0.9 for eels >= 500 mm. The capture efficiency of baited vs unbaited nets was assessed in a small stream that was electric fished after netting trials were completed. Baited nets proved to be an effective method of assessing abundance of longfin eels (> 400 mm) but not shortfins (A. australis Richardson); capture efficiency of the population of longfins (the sum of fyke caught and electric fished eels) was 0.4 for a single night's fyke netting, increasing to 0.8 over four nights. Comparable efficiencies for shortfins were < 0.1 and 0.3 respectively. Unbaited nets were markedly less efficient for both species.
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