Title
Detection of the oxygen minimal zone - OMZ using fishing vessels in the Peruvian sea during 2007-2016
Date Issued
25 April 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Using TASA fishing vessels on the Peruvian coast during the period 2007 to 2016, the Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) was determined through echograms obtained using a digital echo sounders ES60 and ES70 SIMRAD. The purse-seine fleet operates during two seasons per year for anchovy fishing as well as in fishing activities for human consumption in the central-north and south area. Using Echoview software algorithms it is possible to determine the OMZ and to export the data in organized spreadsheet format for each season of the year and to calculate the area occupied using Surfer 8.0 program. Interannual variation were analyzed using the statistical program R. The results show that the OMZ can be obtained using the fishing fleets, but these results are based on the area covered by the fishing fleet. Due to the wide coverage of the fleet during the year, we can have a daily, monthly and seasonal monitoring during the year. The results show an average depth of 50 meters of the OZM.
Start page
1
End page
3
Volume
2018-January
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería oceanográfica Pesquería
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85049658664
ISBN of the container
9781509050109
Conference
2017 IEEE/OES Acoustics in Underwater Geosciences Symposium, RIO Acoustics 2017
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