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PT J
TI Acoustical monitoring of fish density, behavior, and growth rate in a tank
BT 
AF CONTI, Stéphane
   ROUX, Philippe
   FAUVEL, Christian
   MAURER, Benjamin
   DEMER, David
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:1;5:1;
FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-DOP-DCM-PM-APOI;4:;5:;
C1 SW Fisheries Sci Ctr, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.
   Univ Calif San Diego, SIO, Marine Phys Lab, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.
   IFREMER, Stn Expt Aquaculture, F-34250 Palavas Les Flots, France.
C2 NOAA, USA
   UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO, USA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI PALAVAS
SE PDG-DOP-DCM-PM-APOI
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 2.081
TC 31
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-1121.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Total scattering cross section;Fish counting;Growth rate;Remote monitoring;Fish behavior
AB A challenge for the aquaculture community has long been the development of harmless techniques for monitoring fish in a tank. Acoustic telemetry has been used to monitor fish swimming behavior, and passive acoustics have been used to monitor fish feeding, but new techniques are needed to monitor non-invasively their numbers and growth rates. Recently, it has been demonstrated that the acoustical total scattering cross section of fish swimming in a tank can be measured from multiple reverberation time series. These measurements have been used successfully to estimate the number of fish in a tank in laboratory conditions, and to characterize their acoustical signatures. Here, we introduce a novel method for acoustically monitoring fish numerical density and behavior, and measuring their growth rates over long periods of time. These measurements can be performed remotely, without human interaction with the fish, and are harmless. To demonstrate the efficiency of these techniques, the number of sea bass, as well as the behaviors of sardines, rockfish and sea bass, in different tanks were monitored. Also, the growth rates of a group of starved sardines and a group of fed sardines were measured acoustically, over I month. For comparison, their average weight was measured once per week. 
PY 2006
PD FEB
SO Aquaculture
SN 0044-8486
PU Elsevier
VL 251
IS 2-4
UT 000235263300019
BP 314
EP 323
DI 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2005.06.018
ID 1121
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