Testing the feasibility of using commercial fishing vessels to conduct acoustic surveys of Atlantic herring

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• Personal Author:
  Libby, David ; Stevenson, David K. ; Scully, Barbara ; Lazzari, Mark
• Corporate Authors:
  Maine. Department of Marine Resources
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
• Description:
  PROJECT OBJECTIVES: 1. Test the feasibility of using a commercial fishing vessel and its crew to collect information on Atlantic herring distribution and abundance for stock assessment purposes. 2. Using this vessel, to apply acoustic survey procedures developed by the Maine Department of Marine Resources in the fall of 1995 on Jeffreys Ledge to coastal Gulf of Maine spawning grounds in the summer and fall of 1996. 3. Train the crew of the fishing vessel and the crews of other commercial fishing vessels collaborating in this project in proper acoustic survey procedures, the operation of the echosounder and computer hardware and software, and proper data collection procedures aboard the vessel.
• Keywords:
  Atlantic Herring Fisheries Economic Assistance Federal Government Fish Stock Assessment Research Underwater Acoustics Atlantic Herring Fisheries Economic Assistance Federal Government Fish Stock Assessment Underwater Acoustics

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• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA66FK0078
• Place as Subject:
  Maine, Gulf of ; Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:aee453973801dd3eed401710ba6ecc90a806dfb9380bf9742c5ae1383cd13b1aaaf49b048a48611f9e92ea2f2528f4bdf6c90361359fcfd9be5f27a74d0e7cb1
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/73933/noaa_73933_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 22.71 MB ]