Quantitative sampling of small fishes in dense vegetation: Design and field testing of portable "pop-nets"
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Journal of Applied Ichthyology
- Vol. 4 (4) , 149-157
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.1988.tb00555.x
Abstract
We report the design, operation and preliminary results obtained using a portable, bottomless, "pop-net" in dense stands of submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV). Effort and time for on-site assembly and operation are minimal as are construction costs. Fish density and biomass values derived from use of pop-net are far greater than those obtained from either haul seining or electrofishing in the same bed. The pop-net design appears especially useful for revealing spatial and temporal patterns of small fish distribution within different SAV species.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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