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Relationship of the Thermocline to Success of Purse Seining for Tuna
Author(s) -
Green Roger E.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1967)96[126:rottts]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - thermocline , bathythermograph , tuna , fishery , fishing , oceanography , geography , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , geology
Bathythermograph casts made with fishing sets on tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean were examined for a relationship between fishing success and characteristics of the thermocline. Success was highest in thin mixed layers over thermoclines of sharp temperature gradients.