… Fishermen have long claimed that catch rates decline when a seismic survey starts on a
fishing ground. Likewise, both fishermen and scientists working on fish stock assessment have …

… Reduced catches may also reflect reduced availability of sandeel, as a result of changed
fish behaviour that we have not been able to observe in our experiment. The sandeel …

… in fish, … seismic shooting affects fish behaviour and catch rates. Acoustic mapping and catch
trials in the North Sea indicated that fish distribution changed under the influence of seismic …

… ) during seismic shooting on a Norwegian fishing ground (86% … versus lowered food search
behaviour in fish exposed to air-… 63 to 53 fish per tub when the seismic shooting started and …

… the fisheries while seismic shooting may directly affect both fish and fisheries. The management
of … there could exist a possible link between fish behaviour and seismic shooting activity. …

… , migration patterns and catchability of fish. There is therefore a need … on the detailed behaviour
patterns of fish at different ranges. … Pollack behaviour is size dependent with smaller fish …

… shooting (see Table 1). Both these species are swimbladder fish, and as mentioned swimbladder
fish … behaviour with regard to fishing gear. In either case, active or passive methods of …

… claims that seismic surveys … seismic survey in the Gippsland Basin, Bass Strait, Australia
in April 2015 as an opportunity to quantify fish behaviour (field-based) and commercial fisheries …

… The present findings of altered fish behaviour from seismic shooting support the basis for
management actions in Norway against seismic shooting on and close to spawning grounds …

… constant (cf Figure 2) and that the mean fish behaviour um is substantially larger (cf Figure
1) … of the order of minutes, while the seismic shooting in the present work lasted for about 6 h. …