Winter Aggregations of Carp (Cyprinus carpio) as Revealed by Ultrasonic Tracking
- 1 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 106 (6) , 556-559
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1977)106<556:waoccc>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Daily movements of 17 carp bearing ultrasonic transmitters were monitored during autumn and winter of 1974-1975 and 1975-1976. In each year these fish joined concentrations of carp in 2 areas of Lake Mendota [Wisconsin, USA] in late autumn before freeze-up. Instrumented carp arrived at these 2 areas with relative synchrony from different parts of the lake. Commercial fishermen, advised of these locations, harvested 46,400 kg of fish. The use of carp bearing ultrasonic transmitter to locate large concentrations could be useful as both a commercial fishing and management technique.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- An Ultrasonic Transmitter for Use in Studies of Movements of FishesTransactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1966