Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

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Environment

Development of New Methods for Quantifying Fish Density Using Underwater Stereo-video Tools

Christian Denney¹, Ryan Fields¹, Mary Gleason², Richard Starr¹

¹Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, ²The Nature Conservancy

We describe a new method for counting fishes, and estimating relative abundance (MaxN) and fish density using rotating stereo-video camera systems. We also demonstrate how to use distance from camera (Z distance) to estimate species-specific detectability.