Feasibility of using mobile hydroacoustic surveys for estimating spawning stock size of blueback herring Warren Mitchell , Chris Taylor, Jeff Buckel and Joe Hightower, with commercial fisher Terry Pratt The overall goal of this project is to assess the feasibility of using mobile fisheries hydroacoustics to survey migratory river herring populations in western Albemarle Sound. This is a pilot study to investigate whether these methods are cost-effective and can be used to produce absolute abundance estimates of river herring.

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