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- Title
When fish meet a trawling vessel: examining the behaviour of gadoids using a free-floating buoy and acoustic split-beam tracking.
- Authors
Handegard, Nils Olav; Tjøstheim, Dag
- Abstract
The reaction of individual gadoids to a bottom-trawling vessel has been observed in situ in the Barents Sea using a free-floating buoy and acoustic target-tracking methods. More than 20 000 tracks were analysed in terms of velocity changes in vertical, athwarthship, and alongship direction relative to the vessel, the warps, and the trawl, respectively. The fish starts diving about 15 min before vessel passing. This coincides with the time the trawl is running and not with the gradual increase in vessel noise caused by the approaching vessel. The change in horizontal movement is more gradual and is directed away from the vessel in the alongship direction, but towards the vessel in the athwarthship direction. The strongest and sharpest response is related to the trawl warps. A strong herding in front of the warps is seen. Closer to the bottom, an athwarthship herding reaction is seen away from the trawl doors or possibly the lower parts of the warps. There were only minor differences when grouping the tracks according to light level, fish size, and fish density.
- Subjects
FISHES; DREDGING (Fisheries); SEAS; SPEED; SHIPS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences, 2005, Vol 62, Issue 10, p2409
- ISSN
0706-652X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/F05-131