Acoustics in Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology

Aquatic Resources: Nearshore Fisheries and Aquaculture

Ecology and acoustics at a large scale

There is likely no silent place on Earth. Sounds produced by inanimate sources, as well as by plants, animals and humans, permeate all environments from the deep-sea to the aerosphere, 24 h a day (Stocker, 2013). Eavesdropping on animal vocal communications has been an active field of research for more than 60 years (Busnel, 1963) and has, for example, alerted us to the possible deleterious eff...

. D . Martell : Fisheries Ecology and Management

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Passive Acoustics as a Tool in Fisheries Science

—Many fishery biologists that are interested in documenting fish habitat and following the movements and behavior of fishes use acoustic tags. Because over 700 fish species naturally produce lowfrequency, species-specific sounds, these can be used as natural acoustic tags. Passive acoustic approaches (monitoring sound-producing fishes with hydrophones) show great promise for gathering data in a...

Ecology of Vibrio mimicus in aquatic environments.

An environmental study was done to examine the prevalence of Vibrio mimicus in some aquatic environments of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and of Okayama, Japan. Water samples from Dhaka environments and water and plankton samples from Okayama environments were quantitatively as well as qualitatively analyzed throughout the seasons for V. mimicus. The organism was isolated from Bangladesh environments thro...