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Surveying Stocks of Scallops (Pecten Maximus) and Queens (Chlamys Opercularis) with Underwater Television

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A. Franklin ,
G. D. Pickett ,
N. A. Holme  and
R. L. Barrett
A. Franklin
Affiliation:
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Laboratory, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
G. D. Pickett
Affiliation:
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Laboratory, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
N. A. Holme
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
R. L. Barrett
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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In England the fisheries for both scallops (Pecten maximus) and queens (Chlamys opercularis) expanded rapidly in the 1970s. Considerable research has been undertaken to develop an effective method of surveying stocks of these species in order to assess the impact of this greatly increased fishing effort on commercial populations. Visual photographic surveys seemed likely to provide the best means of assessing populations (Pickett & Franklin, 1975) and this paper outlines the preliminary results obtained from such a system - a towed sledge carrying both television and still cameras, developed at the Plymouth Laboratory.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , February 1980 , pp. 181 - 191
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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