Studies on Estimation of Fish Abundance Using an Echo Sounder ( 1 ) - Experimental Verification of the Theory for Estimating Fish Density-

어군탐지기에 의한 어군량 추정에 관한 기초적 연구 ( 1 ) - 어군량추정이론의 검증실험 -

An experiment has been carefully designed and performed to verify the theory for the echointergration technique of estimating the density of fish school by the use of steel spheres in a laboratory tank. The spheres used to simulate a fish school were randomly distributed throughout the insonified volume to produce the acoustic echoes similar to those scattered from real fish schools. The backscattered echoes were measured as a function of target density at tow frequencies of 50kHz and 200kHz. Data acquisition, processing and analysis were performed by means of the microcomputer-based sonar-echo processor including a FFT analyzer. Acoustic scattering characteristics of a 36cm mackerel was investigated by measuring fish echoes with frequencies ranging from 47.8kHz to 52.0kHz. The fluctuation of bottom echoes caused by the effects of fish-school attenuation and multiple scattering which occurred in dense aggregations of fishes was also examined by analyzing the echograms of sardine schools obtained by a 50kHz telesounder in the set-net's bagnet, and the echograms obtained by a scientific echo sounder of 50kHz in the East China Sea, respectively. The results obtained can be summarized as follows: 1. The measured and the calculated echo shapes on the steel sphere used to simulate a fish school were in close agreement. 2. The waveform and amplitude of echo signals by a mackerel without swimbladder fluctuated irregularly with the measuring frequency. 3. When a collection of 30 targets/m super(3) lied the shadow region behind another collection of 5 targets/m super(3), the mean losses in echo energy for the 30 targets/m super(3) were about -0.4dB at 50kHz and about -0.2dB at 200kHz, respectively. 4. In the echograms obtained in the East China Sea, the bottom echoes fluctuated remarkably when the dense aggregations of fish appeared between transducer and seabed. Especially, in the case of the echograms of sardine school obtained in a set-net's bagnet, the disappearance of bottom echoes and the lengthening of the echo trace by fish aggregations were observed. Then the mean density of the sardine school was estimated as 36 fish/m super(3). It suggests that when the distribution density of fishes in oceans is greater than this density, the effects of fish-school attenuation and multiple scattering must be taken into account as a possible source of error in fish abundance estimates. 5. The relationship between mean backscattering strength (, dB) and target density ($\rho$, No./m super(3)) were expressed by the equations: =-46.2+13.7 Log($\rho$) at 50kHz and =-43.9+13.4 Log($\rho$) at 200kHz. 6. The difference between the experimentally derived number and the actual number of targets gradually decreased with an increase in the target density and was within 20% when the density was 30 targets/m super(3). From these results, we concluded that when the number of targets in the insonified volume is large, the validity of the echo-integration technique of estimating the density of fish schools could be expected.

적분방식에 의한 어군량추정법을 실험적으로 검증하기 위하여, 실험수조에서 50 kHz와 200 kHz의 주파수를 대상으로 모의어군의 분포밀도와 초음파산란강도의 관계를 검토하고, 또 계량어군탐지기의 정도를 개선하기 위한 문제들에 대하여 고찰을 행한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 어체의 모의표적으로 이용한 steel ball (직영 35mm)의 실측 echo 파형은 이론 echo 파형과 잘 일치하였다. 2. 5 종류의 주파수에 대하여 고등어 (체장 36cm)의 반사주파수특성을 조사한 결과, 측정주파수가 변화함에 따라 어체에 의한 echo 신호의 진폭과 파형이 크게 변동하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 3. 송수파기의 음속 내에서 5개/m 상(3)와 30개/m 상(3)의 표적 군이 서로 상하로 존재할 때, 상부 표적군의 존재에 의해 하부 표적군의 echo level이 -0.43 dB 감쇠하는, 소위 그늘효과(shadowing effect)가 발생하였다. 4. 동지나해에서 정박 중에 탐지한 고밀도 어군의 echo신호와 그 어군직하의 해저에서 산란된 echo 신호를 상호 연관시켜 분석한 결과, 어군층내에서 발생한 어군감쇠와 다중산란효과가 해저 echo 신호의 변동에 큰 영향을 미치고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 5. 정치망의 원통에 인망한 정어리의 단위체적당에 대한 분포밀도가 36마리/m 상(3)였을 때, 해저기녹이 소실되는 어군감쇠현상과, 어군 echo 신호가 해저까지 신장되는 다중산란현상이 동시에 발생하였다. 6. 50kHz와 200kHz의 주파수에서 표적군의 평균체적산란강도(:dB)와 표적의 분포밀도($\rho$:개/m 상(3))의 간에 다음의 회귀직선식을 얻었다. 50kHz : =-46.2+13.7 Log($\rho$). 200kHz : =-43.9+13.4 Log($\rho$). 7. 표적의 분포밀도가 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 개/m 상(3)였을 때, 적분방식에 의한 추정치는 50kHz에서 2.0, 8.1, 9.9, 14.1, 19.2, 26.7 개/m 상(3)이었고, 200kHz에서는 2.0, 8.0, 9.1, 15.0, 20.1, 24.1 개/m 상(3)이었으며, 단위체적당에 분포하는 표적의 수가 많을수록, 그 추정치의 정도가 높아지는 경향을 나타내었다. 또한, 양주파수에서 분포밀도의 추정치는 실제보다 약 30%정도 과소추정되었다.