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Overview of recent progress in fisheries acoustics made by Ifremer with examples from the Bay of Biscay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2009

Verena M. Trenkel ,
Laurent Berger ,
Sébastien Bourguignon ,
Mathieu Doray ,
Ronan Fablet ,
Jacques Massé ,
Valérie Mazauric ,
Cyrille Poncelet ,
Gael Quemener  and
Carla Scalabrin
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Verena M. Trenkel
Affiliation:
Ifremer, Département EMH, rue de l'île d'Yeu, BP 21105, 44311 Nantes Cedex 3, France
Laurent Berger
Affiliation:
Ifremer, Département NSE, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
Sébastien Bourguignon
Affiliation:
Ifremer, Laboratoire LTH, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
Mathieu Doray
Affiliation:
Ifremer, Département EMH, rue de l'île d'Yeu, BP 21105, 44311 Nantes Cedex 3, France
Ronan Fablet
Affiliation:
Institut Telecom/Telecom Bretagne, CNRS UMR 3192, Lab-STICC, CS 83818, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France Université européenne de Bretagne, 5 Bd René Laennec, 35000 Rennes, France
Jacques Massé
Affiliation:
Ifremer, Département EMH, rue de l'île d'Yeu, BP 21105, 44311 Nantes Cedex 3, France
Valérie Mazauric
Affiliation:
Ifremer, Département Direction des moyens et opérations navals, 155 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 92138 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Cyrille Poncelet
Affiliation:
Ifremer, Département NSE, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
Gael Quemener
Affiliation:
Ifremer, Département NSE, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
Carla Scalabrin
Affiliation:
Ifremer, Laboratoire LTH, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
Hector Villalobos
Affiliation:
Ifremer, Département EMH, rue de l'île d'Yeu, BP 21105, 44311 Nantes Cedex 3, France Current address: CICIMAR-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional s/n., Col. Playa Palo de Sta. Rita, La Paz, BCS 23090, Mexico
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Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the progress Ifremer has made recently in fisheries acoustics and the study of small pelagic fish by: i) pushing observation frontiers using a range of platforms including an autonomous underwater vehicle, AUV, ii) developing measuring instruments and methods and iii) studying fish distributions. Presently, information from several frequencies of single-beam echosounders is routinely collected together with data from the ME70 multibeam echosounder. For onboard data acquisition control the HERMES software was developed. The new MOVIES 3D software includes modules for simultaneous realistic 3D visualisation and post-processing such as bottom detection, school extraction and calculation of descriptors and integration of all acoustic data. Several data analysis methods are being developed and some initial results are presented. Finally, results on the spatial distribution of small pelagic fish schools in the Bay of Biscay illustrate the role that acoustics can play, and are already playing, in the implementation of an ecosystem approach to fisheries.

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Multibeam echosounderOceanographic AUVPelagic fishFisheries acoustics
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Review Article
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Aquatic Living Resources , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 433 - 445
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© EDP Sciences, IFREMER, IRD, 2009

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