Fisheries acoustics

Fisheries acoustics includes a range of research and practical application topics using acoustical devices as sensors in aquatic environments. Acoustical techniques can be applied to sensing aquatic animals, zooplankton, and physical and biological habitat characteristics.

See also

• Sonar

References

• Fisheries Acoustics Simmonds, E John and MacLennan, David N (2005) Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9780632059942
• Acoustics Unpacked A great reference for freshwater hydroacoustics for resource assessment - "how to"
• Inter-Calibration of Scientific Echosounders in the Great Lakes
• Evaluation of Methods to Estimate Lake Herring Spawner Abundance in Lake Superior
• Estimating Sockeye Salmon Smolt Flux and Abundance with Side-Looking Sonar
• Herring Research: Using Acoustics to Count Fish.
• Hydroacoustic Applications in Lake, River and Marine environments for study of plankton, fish, vegetation, substrate or seabed classification, and bathymetry.
• Hydroacoustics: Rivers (in: Salmonid Field Protocols Handbook: Chapter 4)
• Hydroacoustics: Lakes and Reservoirs (in: Salmonid Field Protocols Handbook: Chapter 5)
• Hydroacoustic Evaluation of Spawning Red Hind Aggregations Along the Coast of Puerto Rico in 2002 and 2003
• Feasibility Assessment of Split-Beam Hydroacoustic Techniques for Monitoring Adult Shortnose Sturgeon in the Delaware River
• Categorising Salmon Migration Behaviour Using Characteristics of Split-beam Acoustic Data
• PAMGUARD: An Open-Source Software Community Developing Marine Mammal Acoustic Detection and Localisation Software to Benefit the Marine Environment; http://www.pamguard.org/home.shtml

External links

• Fisheries Acoustics Research University of Washington.
• Census of Marine Life - Acoustic Technology]
• Publications for Fisheries Acoustics, e.g. acoustic tag and passive hydroacoustic echo sounder research.
• Acoustic data processing software