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A visual survey technique for deep-water fishes: estimating anglerfish Lophius spp. abundance in closed areas

McINTYRE, F. D ; COLLIE, N ; STEWART, M ; SCALA, L ; FERNANDES, P. G

Journal of fish biology, 2013-10, Vol.83 (4), p.739-753 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Oxford: Blackwell

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Title:
A visual survey technique for deep-water fishes: estimating anglerfish Lophius spp. abundance in closed areas
Author: McINTYRE, F. D ; COLLIE, N ; STEWART, M ; SCALA, L ; FERNANDES, P. G
Subjects: Agnatha. Pisces ; Animals ; Atlantic Ocean ; Biological and medical sciences ; Fisheries - methods ; Fishes ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; Lophius ; Marine ; Pisces ; Population Density ; Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution
Is Part Of: Journal of fish biology, 2013-10, Vol.83 (4), p.739-753
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Description: A visual survey technique was employed to estimate the abundance and distribution of anglerfish Lophius spp. in areas where destructive sampling methods, such as trawling, are unacceptable. To enable visual surveying at depths of over 300 m, a deep towed vehicle was developed equipped with video, lights and other sensors and was towed at speeds of up to 1·5 m s⁻¹ and altitudes of up to 10 m (from the seabed) to survey large areas of the seabed around the Rockall Bank in the north-west Atlantic Ocean. The system allowed for areas up to 125 000 m² to be surveyed, a substantial area comparable to that surveyed by demersal-trawl sampling. Lophius spp. densities ranged from 15 to 736 fish km⁻²; these are comparable to estimated Lophius spp. densities determined by trawl surveys in adjacent areas. Estimates of Lophius spp. abundance in the closed areas ranged between 99,855 and 176,887 for the time series considered (2007-2011).
Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell
Language: English

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A visual survey technique for deep-water fishes: estimating anglerfish Lophius spp. abundance in closed areas

McINTYRE, F. D ; COLLIE, N ; STEWART, M ; SCALA, L ; FERNANDES, P. G

Oxford: Blackwell

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