Fisheries ecology
Fisheries acoustic tools, such as the fisheries echosounder and the scanning sonar, provide information on the behaviour and ecology of fish and plankton.
Data can be recorded continuously with relatively little supervision and so provides an ideal platform for integrated ecosystem surveys.
Benefits of fisheries acoustics
- Record data for the whole watercolumn
- Observe fish interactions in relation to factors such as oceanography and plankton
- Non-invasive technique so that natural behaviour is relatively undisturbed
- Diurnal fish and plankton behavioural patterns
- School behaviour (individual school parameters and school clustering)
- Gear-avoidance behaviour
