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A new signal processing system for inter-agency fisheries acoustic surveys in Lake Erie

 

 Donald W. Einhouse1 and Larry D. Witzel2

 

 

1New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

178 Point Drive North, Dunkirk, New York 14048

dweinhou@gw.dec.state.ny.us

2Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

POB 429 Passmore Street, Port Dover, Ontario, CAN

N0A 1N0

larry.witzel@mnr.gov.on.ca

 

December 2003

 

ABSTRACT:

 

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) Coordination Activities Program supported the purchase of a modern acoustic signal processing and data management system for ongoing, inter-agency fisheries acoustic surveys on Lake Erie. The new signal processing system, ECHOVIEW, is a product of the company SonarData. This project also supported ECHOVIEW training from the software developer for Messer’s Einhouse and Witzel. We subsequently convened a workshop for members of the Lake Erie Forage Task Group to introduce ECHOVIEW software and its application to ongoing Lake Erie acoustic surveys.