| The gulf of Cariaco, Venezuela, is a rather isolated piece of coastal ocean where spatio-temporal variability has been measured. In 1986, three repeated surveys have been carried out in this gulf. The important differences in biomass estimates are attributed to sampling error only. The biological nature of this variability is studied. It is due to a high concentration of the biomass in a few schools and correlatively to the hit or the miss of these large schools, during the sampling. Structural information for predicting them is sought. Also, the number of schools per elementary sampling distance unit (ESDU) and the biomass in each school were measured by echointegration. It is found that there is no clear relation between these two variables. Thus their... |
