INGENIERÍA DE ARTES DE PESCA I

PROGRAMA DE INGENIERÍA PESQUERA

FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA

Jairo Altamar, Cand. Ph.D.

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Behavior of marine fishes

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 Rock carving from the Nordic Bronce Age

Man had already progressed from shore-based to boat

fishing with hook and line

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 The swimming apparatus

The lines represent the myosepts

between the complex myotomes.
Based on Shann (1914)

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SWIMMING – RELATED ADAPTATIONS

Modified from Videler (1993)

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INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FISH AND WATER: FISH WAKES

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 Fish swimming speeds and endurance

The stride length of a fish is the distance covered per tail beat (Fig. 1). The velocity
in m s-1 divided by the tail beat frequency in Hz will give the average stride length
in m. For comparisons between fish of different sizes and belonging to different
species, it is sometimes useful to express stride length as a fraction of the body
length L.
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Maximum swimming speed

(Modified from He, 1993)

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Fish Vision and Its Role in Fish Capture

(Modified from Kawamoto 1970)

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 VISUAL FUNCTION

Color Light Motion

1

3
Vision Vision Vision
Form
4

Vision

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 COLOR VISION

Spectral absorption of light

in the open oceans where
light in the green/blue part of
the spectrum transmits
deeper into the wáter
column than other
wavelengths

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 COLOR VISION

Relative Electroretinographic
amplitude in light adapted
eyes (open circle) and two
dark-adapted eyes of
different time

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 LIGHT VISION

(Zhang 1992)

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Diagram showing the types of vision in a
typical teleost fish.

Binocular vision ( 1 ),
monocular vision ( 2 ),
and blind zone ( 3 )
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 VISUAL ACUITY

Target detection — the ability to form an image on the

retina

Gap detection — the ability to distinguish fine details

Target recognition — the ability to recognize letters such

as the Snellen Notation used in opticians ’ clinics

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 VISUAL STIMULI

A, B ) A conceptual trawl design using optomotor response of fish to improve

catch efficiency. (Courtesy Clem Wardle.)

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 VISUAL STIMULI

Aberdeen Gulf III plankton sampler as viewed from the

front. The engulfing black hole is believed to have induced
larger plankton to escape by swimming out of the pass.
(Wardle 1983 .)
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 Role of sound and hearing in fish
aggregation devices

Schematic diagram of a fish aggregation

device (payao in the Philippines).

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 Aversive Sound to Reduce Fish Entrapment in the
Cooling Water Intakes

Prolonged exposure to high water temperature caused deficiency of

ascorbic acid in the fish’s muscle, which then led to mismatched
growth between vertebrates and therefore muscles that resulted in
lordosis formation (Shao et al. 1990 ). Various methods, including
mechanical screening devices, electric barriers, strobe light, and sound
(EPRI 1992 , Humbles 1993 ), have been deployed to reduce either
impingement or entrapment (Ross and Dunning 1996 ).

During periods when the sound was off, a total of 17 species (1076
individuals) were entrapped. During the periods when sound was on, 10
species (572 individuals) were entrapped. The results indicated that
sound significantly reduced the entrapment rate by almost 50% (Wu et
al. 2009 ).

The promising results prompted the planning and execution of the long
– term use of underwater aversive sound to repel fish from the cooling
water intakes and discharge sites of nuclear power plants in Taiwan.

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