ACOUSTICS UNPACKED

A General Guide for Deriving Abundance Estimates from Hydroacoustic Data

 

 

 

 

References

Literature Cited

Great Lakes Acoustic References

  • Great Lakes General
  • Lake Superior
  • Lake Michigan
  • Lake Huron
  • Lake Erie
  • Lake Ontario
  • Lake Champlain
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    Aglen, A. 1983. Echo integrator threshold and fish density distribution. FAO Fisheries Report 300: 35–44.

    Aglen, A. 1989. Empirical results on precision-effort relationships for acoustic surveys. ICES CM: 1989/B:30, 28 p.

    Aglen, A. 1994. Sources of error in acoustic estimation of fish abundance. Pages 107–133 in A. Fernö and S. Olsen, editors. Marine Fish Behavior in Capture and Abundance Estimation. Fishing News Books, London.

    Appenzeller, A.R. and Leggett, W.C. 1992. Bias in hydroacoustic estimates of fish abundance due to acoustic shadowing: evidence from day-night surveys of vertically migrating fish. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 49: 2179–2189.

    Argyle, A.R. 1992, Acoustics as a tool for the assessment of Great Lakes forage fishes. 1992. Fish. Res. 14: 179–196.

    Argyle, R.L., Fleischer, G.W., Curtis, G.L., Adams, J.A, and Stickel, R.G. 1998. An integrated acoustic and trawl based prey fish assessment strategy for Lake Michigan. Report to Illinois Dept. of Conservation and the Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources. U. S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Division Great Lakes Science Center, Ann Arbor, MI.

    Arrhenius, F., Benneheij, B.J.A.M., Rudstam, L.G., and Boisclair, D. 2000. Can stationary bottom split-beam hydroacoustics be used to measure fish swimming speed in situ? Fish. Res. 45: 31–41.

    Balk, H. and T. Lindem. 2000. Improved fish detection in data from split-beam sonar. Aquatic Living Resources 13:297-303.

    Brandt, S.B. 1980. Spatial segregation of adult and young-of-the-year alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) in Lake Michigan. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 109: 469–478.

    Brandt, S.B. 1996. Acoustic assessment of fish abundance and distribution. Pages 385–431 in B. R. Murphy and D. W. Willis, editors. Fisheries Techniques 2nd edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

    Brandt, S.B., Magnuson, J.J., and Crowder, L.B. 1980. Thermal habitat partitioning by fishes in Lake Michigan. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 44: 371–383.

    Brandt, S.B., Mason, D.M., Patrick, E.V., Argyle, R.L., Wells, L., Unger, P.A., and Stewart, D.J. 1991. Acoustic measures of the abundance and size of pelagic planktivores in Lake Michigan. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 48: 894–908.

    Brooking, T. E. and L. G. Rudstam. 2007. Hydroacoustic  target strength distributions of alewife in a net cage compared to field surveys: deciphering target strength distributions and effect on density estimates. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society submitted.

    Burczynski, J. J. and R. L. Johnson. 1986. Application of dual-beam acoustic survey techniques to limnetic populations of juvenile sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 43:1776-1788.

    Cochrane, N.A., Sameoto, D.D., Herman, A.W., and Neilson, J. 1991. Multiple-frequency acoustic backscattering and zooplankton aggregations in the inner Scotian Shelf basins. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 48: 340–355.

    Conners, M.E. and Schwager, S.J. 2002. The use of adaptive cluster sampling for hydroacoustic surveys. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 59: 1314–1325.

    Cressie, N.A.C. 1993. Statistics for Spatial Data. Wiley-Interscience, New York.

    Crockett, H. J., B. M. Johnson, P. J. Martinez, and D. Brauch. 2006. Modeling target strength distributions to improve hydroacoustic estimation of lake trout population size. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 135:1095-1108.

    Del Grosso, V.A., and Mader, C.W. 1972. Speed of sound in pure water. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 52: 1442–1446.

    Demer, D.A., Soule, M.A., and Hewitt, R.P. 1999. A multiple-frequency method for potentially improving the accuracy and precision of in situ TS measurements. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105: 2359–2377.

    Demer, D.A. 2004. An estimate of error for the CCAMLR 2000 survey estimate of krill biomass. Deep-Sea Res. II 51: 1237–1251.

    DeRobertis, A. and I. Higginbottom. 2007. A post-processing technique to estimate the signal-to-noise ratio and remove echosounder background noise. ICES Journal of Marine Science 64: 1282-1291.

    Didrikas, T., and Hansson, S. 2004. In situ target strength of the Baltic herring and sprat. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 61: 378–382.

    Fernandes, P.G., Brierley, A.S., Simmonds, E.J., Millard, N.W., McPhail, S.D., Armstrong, F., Stevenson, P., and Squires, M. 2000. Fish do not avoid survey vessels. Nature 404: 35–36.

    Fleischer, G.W., Argyle, R.L., and Curtis, G.L. 1997. In situ relations of TS to fish size for Great Lakes pelagic planktivores. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 126: 786–794.

    Fleischer, G.W., Argyle, R.L., Nester, R.T., and Dawson, J. J. 2002. Evaluation of a rubber-compound diaphragm for acoustic fisheries surveys: Effects on dual-beam signal intensity and beam patterns. J. Sound Vib. 258: 763–772.

    Foote, K. 1980. Effect of fish behavior on echo energy: the need for measurement of orientation distributions. J. Cont. Int. Explor. Mer 39: 193–201.

    Foote, K.G. 1982. Optimizing copper spheres for precision calibration of hydroacoustic equipment. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 71: 742–747.

    Foote, K.G. 1983. Maintaining precision calibrations with optimal spheres. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 73: 1054–1063.

    Foote, K. G. 1990. Spheres for calibrating an eleven-frequency acoustic measurement system. ICES Journal of Marine Science 46:284-286.

    Foote, K.G., Knudsen, H.P., Vestnes, G., MacLennan, D.N., and Simmonds, E.J. 1987. Calibration of acoustic instruments for fish density estimation: a practical guide. ICES Cooperative Research Report Number 144.

    Frouzova, J., J. Kubecka, H. Balk, and J. Frouz. 2005. Target strength of some European fish species and its dependence on fish body parameters. Fisheries Research 75:86-96.

    Furusawa, M., and Sawada, K.. 1991. Effects of transducer motion on quantifying single fish echoes. Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi 57: 857–864.

    Gauthier, S., and Rose, G.A. 2001. Diagnostic tools for unbiased in situ TS estimation. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58: 2149–2155.

    Goncharov, S. M., S. B. Popov, V. M. Bondarenko, N. G. Melnik, N. S. Smirnova, and I. V. Khanaev. 2008. Measurement of target strength of Baikal omul (Coregonus autumnalis migratorius) for increasing the accuracy of its stock assessment in Lake Baikal.  Fisheries (Russian Federation) 3:87-90.

    Goyke, A. P. and S. B. Brandt. 1993. Spatial models of salmonine growth rates in Lake Ontario. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 122:870-883.

    Goovaerts, P. 1997. Geostatistics for Natural Resources. Oxford Press. 483 p.

    Guillard, J. and D. Gerdeaux. 1993. In situ determination of the target strength of roach (Rutilus rutilus) in Lake Bouget with a single beam sounder. Aquat. Living Resour. 6:285-289.

    Handegard, N.O., Michalsen, K., and Tjøstheim, D. 2003. Avoidance behaviour in cod (Gadus morhua) to a bottom-trawling vessel. Aquat. Living Res. 16: 265–270.

    Hjellvik, V., Godo, O.R., and Tjostheim, D. 2004. Diurnal variation in acoustic densities: why do we see less in the dark? Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 61: 2237–2254.

    Holbrook, B. V., T. R. Hrabik, D. K.T.R., Branstrator, D. L.K., Yule, D.L., and J. D. Stockwell, J.D. 2006. Hydroacoustic estimation of zooplankton biomass at two shoal complexes in the Apostle Islands Region of Lake Superior. Journal of Great. Gt. Lakes Research . 32: 680-696.

    Horne, J.K. 2003. The influence of ontogeny, physiology, and behaviour on the TS of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma). ICES J. Mar. Sci. 60: 1063–1074.

    Horne, J.K. and Jech, J.M. 2005. Models, measures, and visualizations of fish backscatter. Pages 374-397 in H. Medwin, editor. Sounds in the sea: From ocean acoustics to acoustical oceanography. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

    Janssen, J.J., and Brandt, S.B. 1980. Feeding ecology and vertical migration of adult alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) in Lake Michigan. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 37: 177–184.

    Johannesson, K.A., and Mitson, R.B. 1983. Fisheries acoustics. A practical manual for aquatic biomass estimation. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 240.

    Kaluzny, S.P., S.C. Vega, T.P. Cardoso, and A.S. S+SpatialStats: User's Manual for Windows and UNIX. Springer, New York.

    Keith, G.J., Ryan, T.E., and Kloser, R.J. 2005. ES60Adjust. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Castray Esplanade, Hobart 7001, Tasmania, Australia.

    Korneliussen, R.J. 2000. Measurement and removal of echo integration noise. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57: 1204–1217.

    Korneliussen, R. J., N. Diner, E. Ona, L. Berger, and P. G. Fernandes. 2008. Proposals for the collection of multifrequency acoustic data. ICES Journal of Marine Science 65:982-994.

    Knudsen, H.P. 2001. New research vessel need for instrumentation. Technological Awareness Workshop, Bergen Subsea Group. Institute of Marine Research, Bergen Norway. http://www.uib.no/gosars/english/layout/instrumentation-nov-2001.pdf

    Lawson, G. L. and G. A. Rose. 1999. The importance of detectability to acoustic surveys of semi-demersal fish. ICES Journal of Marine Science 56:370-380.

    Love, R.H. 1971. Measurements of fish TS: a review. Fishery Bulletin 69: 703–715.

    Luecke, C. and W. A. Wurtsbaugh. 1993. Effects of moonlight and daylight on hydroacoustic estimates of pelagic fish abundance. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 122:112-120.

    MacLennan, D.N. 1990. Acoustical measurement of fish abundance. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87: 1–15.

    MacLennan, D.N., Fernandes, P.G., and Dalen, J. 2002. A consistent approach to definitions and symbols in fisheries acoustics. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 59: 365–369.

    Mason, D. M., A. Goyke, S. B. Brandt, and J. M. Jech. 2001. Acoustic fish stock assessment in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Pages 317-340 in M. Munawar and R. E. Hecky, editors. The Great Lakes of the World Food-web, health and integrity. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.

    Mason, D. M., T. B. Johnson, C. S. Harvey, J. F. Kitchell, S. T. Schram, C. R. Bronte, M. H. Hoff, S. J. Lozano, A. S. Trebitz, D. R. Schreiner, E. C. Lamon, and T. Hrabik. 2005. Hydroacoustic estimates of abundance and spatial distribution of pelagic prey fishes in western Lake Superior. Journal of Great Lakes Research 31:426-438.

    McClatchie, S., Thorne, R.E., Grimes, P., and Hanchet, S. 2000. Ground truth and target identification for fisheries acoustics. Fish. Res. 47: 173-191.

    Medwin, H., and Clay, C.S. 1998. Fundamentals of acoustical oceanography. Academic Press, Boston.

    Megard, R.O., Kuns, M.M., Whiteside, M.C., and Downing, J.A. 1997. Spatial distributions of zooplankton during coastal upwelling in western Lake Superior. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42: 827–840.

    Mehner, T. 2006. Prediction of hydroacoustic target strength of vendace (Coregonus albula) from concurrent trawl catches. Fish. Res. 79: 162–169.

    Middel, T.A. 2005. Hydroacoustic assessment of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) populations. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Mitson, R.B. (Editor). 1995. Underwater Noise of Research Vessels: Review and Recommendations.Cooperative Research Report, No. 209, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen, Denmark. 61 pp.

    Mitson, R.B., and Knudsen, H.P. 2003. Causes and effects of underwater noise on fish abundance estimation. Aquat. Living Res. 16: 255–263.

    NMFS – SOP. National Marine Fisheries Service Standard Operating Procedure for acoustic surveys. Mimeograph.

    Ona, E. 1990. Physiological factors causing natural variations in acoustic TS of fish. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U.K. 70: 107–127.

    Ona, E. and Godo, O.R. 1990. Fish reaction to trawling noise: the significance for trawl sampling. Rapports et Proces-Verbaux des Reunions, J. Cont. Int. Explor. Mer 189: 159–166.

    Ona, E., and Mitson, R.B. 1996. Acoustic sampling and signal processing near the seabed: the deadzone revisited. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 53: 677–690.

    Ona, E., editor. 1999. Methodology for target strength measurements. ICES, Charlottenlund, Denmark.

    Parker Stetter, S.L., Rudstam, L.G., Stritzel Thomson, J.L., and Parrish, D.L. 2006. Hydroacoustic separation of rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) age groups in Lake Champlain. Fish. Res. 82: 176–185.

    Parkinson, E. A., B. E. Rieman, and L. G. Rudstam. 1994. Comparison of acoustic and trawl methods for estimating density and age composition of kokanee. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 123:841-854.

    Peltonen, H., and Balk, H. 2005. The acoustic target strength of herring (Clupea harengus L.) in the northern Baltic Sea. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 62: 803–808.

    Peltonen, H., Malinen, T., and Tuomaala, A. 2006. Hydroacoustic in situ target strength of smelt (Osmerus eperlanus (L.)). Fish. Res. 80: 190–195.

    Pollock, K.H., Nichols, J.D., Simons, T.R., Farnsworth, G.L., Bailey, L.L., and Sauer, J.R. 2002. Large scale wildlife monitoring studies: statistical methods for design and analysis. Environmetrics 13: 105-119.

    Reeder, D.B., Jech, J.M., and Stanton, T.K. 2004. Broadband acoustic backscatter and high-resolution morphology of fish: measurement and modeling. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116: 729-746.

    Rivoirard, J., Simmonds, J., Foote, K.G., Fernandes, P., and Bez, N. 2000. Geostatistics for Estimating Fish Abundance. Blackwell Science, London, U.K.

    Rose, G., Gauthier, S., and Lawson, G. 2000. Acoustic surveys in the full monte: simulating uncertainty. Aquat. Living Res. 13: 367–372.

    Ross, Q.E., Dunning, D.J., Menezes, J.K., Kenna Jr., M.J., and Tiller, G. 1996. Reducing impingement of alewives with high-frequency sound at a power plant intake on Lake Ontario. N. Am. J. Fish. Manage. 16: 548–559.

    Røstad, A., Kaartvedt, S., Klevjer, T.A., and Melle, W. 2006. Fish are attracted to vessels. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 63:in press.

    Rudstam, L.G., Clay, C.S., and J.J. Magnuson, J.J. 1987. Density and size estimates of cisco (Coregonus artedii) using analysis of echo peak PEF from a single-transducer sonar. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 44: 811–821.

    Rudstam, L.G., Parker, S.L., Einhouse, D.W., Witzel, L.D., Warner, D.M., Stritzel, J.L., Parrish, D.L., and Sullivan, P.J. 2003. Application of in situ TS estimations in lakes - examples from rainbow smelt surveys in Lakes Erie and Champlain. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 60: 500–507.

    Rudstam, L.G., VanDeValk, A.J., and Scheuerell, M.D. 2002. Comparison of acoustic and Miller high-speed sampler estimates of larval fish abundance in Oneida Lake, New York. Fish. Res. 57: 145–154.

    Rudstam, L.G., Schaner, T., Gal, G., Boscarino, B.T., O'Gorman, R., Warner, D.M., Johannsson, O.E., and Bowen, K.  2008a. Hydroacoustic measures of Mysis relicta abundance and distribution in Lake Ontario. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management (in press).

    Rudstam, L.G., Jech, J.M. , Parker Stetter, S.L., Horne, J.K., Sullivan, P.J., and Mason, D.M. 2008b. Fisheries acoustics. in D.L. Parrish, editor. Fisheries Techniques. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland (in press).

    Sawada, K., Furusawa, M., and Williamson, N.J. 1993. Conditions for the precise measurement of fish TS in situ. J. Mar. Acoust. Soc. Japan 20: 73–79.

    Scheaffer, R.L., Mendenhall III, W., and Ott, R.L. 1996. Elementary Survey Sampling 5th Edition. Duxbury Press, London, U.K.

    Simmonds, E.J., Williamson, N.J., Gerlotto, F. and Aglen, A. 1992. Acoustic survey design and analysis procedure: a comprehensive review of current practice. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 187. ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark.

    Simmonds, J., and MacLennan, D. 2005. Fisheries acoustics: Theory and practice. Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

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    Soule, M., M. Barange, H. Solli, and I. Hampton. 1997. Performanceof a new phase algorithm for discriminating between single and overlapping echoes in a split-beam echosounder. ICES Journal of Marine Science 54:934-938.

    Soria, M., Fréon, P., and Gerlotto, F.. 1996. Analysis of vessel influence on spatial behavior of fish schools using a multi-beam sonar and consequences for biomass estimates by echo-sounder. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 53: 453–458.

    Stanton, T.K. 1982. Effects of transducer motion on echo-integration techniques. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 72: 947–949.

    Swartzman, G., Brodeur, R., Napp, J., Walsh, D., Hewitt, R., Demer, D., Hunt, G., and Logerwell, E. 1999. Relating spatial distributions of acoustically determined patches of fish and plankton: data viewing, image analysis, and spatial proximity. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56: 188–198.

    Tewinkel, L.M., and Fleischer, G.W. 1998. Vertical migration and nighttime distribution of adult bloaters in Lake Michigan. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 128: 459–474.

    Toresen, R. 1991. Absorption of acoustic energy in dense herring schools studied by the attenuation in the bottom echo signal. Fish. Res. 10: 317-327.

    Torgersen, T., and Kaartvedt, S. 2001. In situ swimming behavior of individual mesopelagic fish studied by split-beam echo target tracking. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 58: 436–354.

    Vabø, R., Olsen, K., and Huse, I. 2002. The effect of vessel avoidance of wintering Norwegian spring spawning herring. Fish. Res. 58: 59–77.

    Volpatti, K., Gerlotto, F., Soria, M., and Brehmer, P. 2002. A comparative evaluation of school lateral avoidance to survey vessel in different tropical areas. ICES/CIEM 6th International Symposium on Acoustics in Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology.

    Warner, D.M., Rudstam, L.G., and Klumb, R.A. 2002. In situ TS of alewives in freshwater. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 131: 212–223.

    Watkins, J.L., and Brierley, A.S. 1996. A post processing technique to remove background noise from echo integration data. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 53: 339–344.

     

    Great Lakes Acoustic References

    Great Lakes General

    Argyle, A.R. 1992, Acoustics as a tool for the assessment of Great Lakes forage fishes. 1992. Fish. Res. 14: 179–196.

    Brandt, S.B., Mason, D.M., and Patrick, E.V. 1992. Spatially-explicit models of fish growth rate. Fisheries 17: 23–33.

    Fleischer, G.W., and TeWinkle, L.M. 1998. Buoyancy characteristics of the bloater (Coregonus hoyi) in relation to patterns of vertical migration and acoustic backscattering. Arch. Hydrobiol. 50: 219–225.

    Fleischer, G.W., Argyle, R.L., and Curtis, G.L. 1997. In situ relations of TS to fish size for Great Lakes pelagic planktivores. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 126: 786–794.

    Fleischer, G.W., Argyle, R.L., Nester, R.T., and Dawson, J. J. 2002. Evaluation of a rubber-compound diaphragm for acoustic fisheries surveys: Effects on dual-beam signal intensity and beam patterns. J. Sound Vib. 258: 763–772.

    Gal, G., Rudstam, L.G., and Greene, C.H. 1999. Acoustic characterization of Mysis relicta. Limnol..Oceanogr. 44: 371–381.

    Peterson, M.L., Clay, C.S., and Brandt, S.B. 1976. Acoustic estimates of fish density and scattering function. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 60: 618–622.

    Warner, D.M., Rudstam, L.G., and Klumb, R.A. 2002. In situ TS of alewives in freshwater. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 131: 212–223.

     

    Lake Superior

    Heist, B.G., and Swenson, W.A. 1983. Distribution and abundance of rainbow smelt in western Lake Superior as determined from acoustic sampling. J. Gt. Lakes Res. 9: 343–353.

    Holbrook, B. V., T. R. Hrabik, D. K.T.R., Branstrator, D. L.K., Yule, D.L., and J. D. Stockwell, J.D. 2006. Hydroacoustic estimation of zooplankton biomass at two shoal complexes in the Apostle Islands Region of Lake Superior. Journal of Great. Gt. Lakes Research. 32: 680-696.

    Johnson, T.B., Mason, D.M., Bronte, C.R., and Kitchell, J.F. 1998. Estimation of invertebrate production from patterns of fish predation in western Lake Superior. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 127: 496–506.

    Johnson, T.B., Hoff, M.H., Trebitz, A.S., Bronte, C.R., Corry, T.D., Kitchell, J.F., Lozano, S.J., Mason, D.M., Scharold, J.V., Schram, S.T., and Schreiner, D.R. 2004. Spatial patterns in assemblage structures of pelagic forage fish and zooplankton in western Lake Superior. J. Gt. Lakes Res. 30: 395–406.

    Mason, D.M., Johnson, T.B., and Kitchell, J.F. 1998. Consequences of prey fish community dynamics on lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) foraging efficiency in lake superior. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 55: 1273–1284.

    Mason, D.M., Johnson, T.B., Harvey, C.S., Kitchell, J.F., Schram, S.T., Bronte, C.R., Hoff, M.H., Lozano, S.J., Trebitz, A.S., Schreiner, D.R., Lamon, E.C., and Hrabik, T. 2005. Hydroacoustic estimates of abundance and spatial distribution of pelagic prey fishes in western Lake Superior. J. Gt. Lakes Res. 31: 426–438.

    Megard, R.O., Kuns, M.M., Whiteside, M.C., and Downing, J.A.. 1997. Spatial distributions of zooplankton during coastal upwelling in western Lake Superior. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42: 827–840.

    Stockwell, J.D., Yule, D.L., Hrabik, T.R., Adams, J.V., Holbrook, B.V., and Gorman, O. T. 2007. Vertical distribution of fish biomass in Lake Superior: implications for day bottom trawl surveys.  N. Am. J. Fish. Manage. 27:735-749

    Stockwell, J.D., Yule, D.L., Gorman, O.T., Isaac, E.J., and Moore, S.A. 2006. Evaluation of bottom trawls as compared to acoustics to assess adult lake herring (Coregonus artedi) abundance in Lake Superior. J. Gt. Lakes Res. 32: 280–292.

    Yule, D. L., J. D. Stockwell, G. A.J.D., Cholwek, L. M.G.A., Evrard, S.L.M., Schram, M.S., Seider, M., and M. Symbal, M. 2006. Evaluation of methods to estimate lake herring spawner abundance in Lake Superior. Transactions of The American Fisheries Society. Am. Fish. Soc. 135: 680-694.

    Yule, D. L., J. V. Adams, J. D.V., Stockwell, J.D., and O. T. Gorman, O.T.. 2007. Using multiple geasrgears to assess acosutic acoustic detectability and biomass of fish species in Lake Superior. North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementN. Am. J. Fish. Manage27:106-126.

    Lake Michigan

    Adams, J. V., R. L. Argyle, G. W.R.L., Fleischer, G. L.W., Curtis, G.L., and R. G. Stickel, R.G. 2006. Improving the design of acoustic and midwater trawl surveys through stratification, with an application to lakeLake Michigan prey fishes. North American Journal Of Fisheries ManagementN. Am. J. Fish. Manage. 26: 612-621.

    Argyle, R.L., Fleischer, G.W., Curtis, G.L., Adams, J.A, and Stickel, R.G. 1998. An integrated acoustic and trawl based prey fish assessment strategy for Lake Michigan. Report to Illinois Dept. of Conservation and the Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources. U. S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Division Great Lakes Science Center, Ann Arbor, MI.

    Brandt, S.B., Mason, D.M., Patrick, E.V., Argyle, R.L., Wells, L., Unger, P.A., and Stewart, D.J. 1991. Acoustic measures of the abundance and size of pelagic planktivores in Lake Michigan. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 48: 894–908.

    Fabrizio, M.C., Adams, J.V., and Curtis, G.L. 1997. Assessing prey fish populations in Lake Michigan: comparison of simultaneous acoustic-midwater trawling with bottom trawling. Fish. Res. 33: 37–54.

    Höök, T.O., Rutherford, E.S., Brines, S.J., Geddes, C.A., Mason, D.M., Schwab, D.J., and Fleischer, G.W. 2004. Landscape scale measures of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) bioenergetic growth rate potential in Lake Michigan and comparison with angler catch rates. J. Gt . Lakes Res. 30: 545–556.

    Janssen, J., and Brandt, S.B. 1980. Feeding ecology and vertical migration of adult alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) in Lake Michigan. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 37: 177–184.

    Mason, D.M., Goyke, A., and Brandt, S.B. 1995. A spatially explicit bioenergetics measure of habitat quality for adult salmonines: Comparison between Lakes Michigan and Ontario. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 52: 1572–1583.

    Rand, P.S., Stewart, D.J., Lantry, B.F., Rudstam, L.G., Johannsson, O.E., O'Gorman, R., Eck, G.W., Goyke, A.P., and Brandt, S.B. 1995. Level and effect of whole-lake invertebrate predation by pelagic planktivores in Lakes Michigan and Ontario. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 52: 1546–1563.

    TeWinkle, L.M., and Fleischer, G.W. 1998. Pressure as a limit to bloater (Coregonus hoyi) vertical migration. Copeia 1998: 1060–1063.

    TeWinkel, L.M., and Fleischer, G.W. 1998. Vertical migration and nighttime distribution of adult bloaters in Lake Michigan. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 128: 459–474.

    TeWinkel, L.M., and Fleischer, G.W. 2001. Vertical migration of bloaters - response to comment. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 130: 167–169.

     

    Lake Huron

    Argyle, R.L.  1982.  Alewives and rainbow smelt in Lake Huron: midwater and bottom aggregations and estimates of standing stocks.  Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 111:267-285.

     

    Lake Erie

    Conners, M.E. and Schwager, S.J. 2002. The use of adaptive cluster sampling for hydroacoustic surveys. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 59: 1314–1325.

    Horne, J.K., Jech, J.M., and Brandt, S.B. 1996. Spatial modeling of aquatic habitat from a fish's perspective. in Proceedings of the thrid international conference/workshop on integrating geographic information systems and environmental modeling. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Santa Barbara, CA.

    Rudstam, L.G., Hansson, S., Lindem, T., and Einhouse, D.W. 1999a. Comparison of TS distributions and fish densities obtained with split and single beam echo sounders. Fish. Res. 42: 207–214.

    Rudstam, L.G., Parker, S.L., Einhouse, D.W., Witzel, L.D., Warner, D.M., Stritzel, J.L., Parrish, D.L., and Sullivan, P.J. 2003. Application of in situ TS estimations in lakes - examples from rainbow smelt surveys in Lakes Erie and Champlain. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 60: 500–507.

     

    Lake Ontario

    Gal, G., E. R. Loew, L. G. Rudstam, and A. M. Mohammadian. 1999. Light and diel vertical migration: spectral sensitivity and light avoidance by Mysis relicta. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56: 311–322.

    Gal, G., L. G. Rudstam, and O. E. Johannsson. 2004. Predicting Mysis relicta vertical distribution in Lake Ontario. Arch. Hydrobiol. 159: 1–23.

    Gal, G., Rudstam, L.G., Mills, E.L., Lantry, J.R., Johannsson, O.E., and Greene, C.H. 2006. Mysid and fish zooplanktivory in Lake Ontario: quantification of direct and indirect effects. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 63:2734-2747.

    Goyke, A.P., and Brandt, S.B. 1993. Spatial models of salmonine growth rates in Lake Ontario. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 122: 870–883.

    Mason, D.M., and Brandt, S.B. 1996. Effect of alewife predation on survival of larval yellow perch in an embayment of Lake Ontario. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 53: 1609–1617.

    Mason, D.M., Goyke, A., and S. B. Brandt, S.B. 1995. A spatially explicit bioenergetics measure of habitat quality for adult salmonines: Comparison between Lakes Michigan and Ontario. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 52: 1572–1583.

    Rand, P.S., Stewart, D.J., Lantry, B.F., Rudstam, L.G., Johannsson, O.E., O'Gorman, R., Eck, G.W., Goyke, A.P., and Brandt, S.B. 1995. Level and effect of whole-lake invertebrate predation by pelagic planktivores in Lakes Michigan and Ontario. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 52: 1546–1563.

    Ross, Q.E., Dunning, D.J., Menezes, J.K., Kenna Jr., M.J., and Tiller, G. 1996. Reducing impingement of alewives with high-frequency sound at a power plant intake on Lake Ontario. N. Am. J. Fish. Manage. 16: 548–559.

    Roy, D., Haffner, G.D., and Brandt, S.B. 2004. Estimating fish production potentials using a temporally explicit model. Ecol. Model. 173: 241–257.

    Rudstam, L.G., Schaner, T., Gal, G., Boscarino, B.T., O'Gorman, R., Warner, D.M., Johannsson, O.E., and Bowen, K.  2008. Hydroacoustic measures of Mysis relicta abundance and distribution in Lake Ontario. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management (in press).

     

    Lake Champlain

    Parker Stetter, S.L., Rudstam, L.G., Stritzel Thomson, J.L., and Parrish, D.L. 2006. Hydroacoustic separation of rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) age groups in Lake Champlain. Fish. Res. 82: 176–185.

    Parker Stetter, S.L., Stritzel Thomson, J.L., Rudstam, L.G., Parrish, D.L., and Sullivan, P.J. 2007. Importance and predictability of cannibalism in rainbow smelt. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 136: 227–237.

    Pientka, B., and Parrish, D.L. 2002. Habitat selection of predator and prey: Atlantic salmon and rainbow smelt overlap based on temperature and dissolved oxygen. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 131: 1180–1193.

    Rudstam, L.G., Lindem, T., and LaBar, G. 1999. The single beam analysis. Pages 6-13 in E. Ona, editor. Methodology for TS measurements (with special reference to in situ techniques for fish and micronekton). ICES Coop. Res.Rep. 235, ICES, Copenhagen.

    Rudstam, L.G., Parker, S.L., Einhouse, D.W., Witzel, L.D., Warner, D.M., Stritzel, J.L., Parrish, D.L., and Sullivan, P.J. 2003. Application of in situ TS estimations in lakes - examples from rainbow smelt surveys in Lakes Erie and Champlain. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 60: 500–507.