Acoustic discrimination of Southern Ocean zooplankton

• Main Authors: Brierley, Andrew Stuart, Ward, P, Watkins, JL, Goss, C
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: KRILL EUPHAUSIA-SUPERBA; SOUND-SCATTERING LAYERS; ANTARCTIC KRILL; BACKSCATTERING STRENGTH; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VERTICAL MIGRATION; TARGET STRENGTH; FINE-STRUCTURE; FISH SCHOOLS; ABUNDANCE; Antarctic; Longhurst; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba; Thysanoessa macrura
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/acoustic-discrimination-of-southern-ocean-zooplankton(dd8befdc-c9c0-49e4-aadf-4da60fd0fe8b).html; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032125344&partnerID=8YFLogxK; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science

Acoustic surveys in the vicinity of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia during a period of exceptionally calm weather revealed the existence of a number of horizontally extensive yet vertically discrete scattering layers in the upper 250 m of the water column. These layers were fished with a L...