Morphometric data for herring, sprat and three-spined stickleback from the Baltic Sea
https://doi.org/10.5878/ng42-dk75
Fish body shape (including shape of the swimbladder) is essential for calculating Target strength (TS) in the context of fish hydro-acoustic surveys. Correct TS data is required for unbiased abundance estimations and allows for remote target classification. The present work aims at describing the exact individual shape of small pelagic fish specimen in the Baltic Sea, which can be used in shape modelling and TS modelling. The dataset contains morphometric data for individual fish specimen (coordinates along the body and swim bladder) for Clupea harengus, Sprattus sprattus and Gasterosteus aculeatus, sampled in the Baltic Sea (ICES area 27) in 2020 - 2022.
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Data collection - Biological tests
Data collection - Biological tests
Mode of collection:
Biological tests
Description of the mode of collection:
Fish specimen sampled with pelagic trawls.
Time period(s) for data collection:
2020-05-01 - 2022-05-20
Data collector:
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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- Biological samples
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ICES subdivision 27 (between Öland and Gotland)
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Department of Aquatic Resources
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Ethical Review
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- Gothenburg board for ethical animal research
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Dnr 5.8.18-09303/2024
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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Miljöanalysprogrammet Kust och Hav
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Hentati-Sundberg et al. Reassessing acoustic target strength to improve remote classification of Baltic Sea small pelagic fish . ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 83, Issue 4, April 2026, fsag053
