Localizing Snapping Shrimp Noise Using a Small-Aperture Array

Too, Yuen Min; Barbastathis, George; Pallayil, Venugopalan

doi:10.1109/joe.2017.2777718

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“…Parsons et al (2009Parsons et al ( , 2010 and Locascio and Mann (2011) conducted finer scale three-dimensional (3D) localisation and monitored individual fish in aggregations. Gervaise et al (2019), Ferguson andCleary (2001) and Too et al (2019) also performed fine-scale acoustic localisation on sounds produced by invertebrates. Finescale localisation is extremely valuable as it can not only be used methodology, identify more fish sounds around the world and make passive acoustics a more viable way to monitor fish.…”

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“…Parsons et al (2009, 2010) and Locascio and Mann (2011) conducted finer scale three‐dimensional (3D) localisation and monitored individual fish in aggregations. Gervaise et al (2019), Ferguson and Cleary (2001) and Too et al (2019) also performed fine‐scale acoustic localisation on sounds produced by invertebrates. Fine‐scale localisation is extremely valuable as it can not only be used with video recordings to identify the species and behaviour of the animals producing sounds, but can also be used to track movements of individual fish, estimate the number of vocalising individuals near the recorder, and measure source levels of the sounds.…”

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Identification of fish sounds in the wild using a set of portable audio‐video arrays

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Associating fish sounds to specific species and behaviours is important for making passive acoustics a viable tool for monitoring fish. While recording fish sounds in tanks can sometimes be performed, many fish do not produce sounds in captivity. Consequently, there is a need to identify fish sounds in situ and characterise these sounds under a wide variety of behaviours and habitats. We designed three portable audio‐video platforms capable of identifying species‐specific fish sounds in the wild: a large array, a mini array and a mobile array. The large and mini arrays are static autonomous platforms than can be deployed on the seafloor and record audio and video for one to two weeks. They use multichannel acoustic recorders and low‐cost video cameras mounted on PVC frames. The mobile array also uses a multichannel acoustic recorder, but mounted on a remotely operated vehicle with built‐in video, which allows remote control and real‐time positioning in response to observed fish presence. For all arrays, fish sounds were localised in three dimensions and matched to the fish positions in the video data. We deployed these three platforms at four locations off British Columbia, Canada. The large array provided the best localisation accuracy and, with its larger footprint, was well suited to habitats with a flat seafloor. The mini and mobile arrays had lower localisation accuracy but were easier to deploy, and well suited to rough/uneven seafloors. Using these arrays, we identified, for the first time, sounds from quillback rockfish Sebastes maliger, copper rockfish Sebastes caurinus and lingcod Ophiodon elongatus. In addition to measuring temporal and spectral characteristics of sounds for each species, we estimated mean source levels for lingcod and quillback rockfish sounds (115.4 and 113.5 dB re 1 μPa, respectively) and maximum detection ranges at two sites (between 10.5 and 33 m). All proposed array designs successfully identified fish sounds in the wild and were adapted to various budget, logistical and habitat constraints. We include here building instructions and processing scripts to help users replicate this methodology, identify more fish sounds around the world and make passive acoustics a more viable way to monitor fish.

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