Behavior of Israeli carp Cyprinus carpio traced by long baseline telemetry techniques during dynamite explosion work

Abstract

The swimming behavior trajectory of an Israeli carp (body length 28 cm) during dynamite explosion work was obtained by the long baseline acoustic telemetry system with an ultrasonic pinger in an aquaculture cage located at Chungju Lake on 2 May 1997. The underwater noise levels measured at a distance of 400 m from the source of noise increased by 40 dB (re 1 µPa) compared to the levels before the explosion. The swimming area of the fish was reduced immediately after the explosion but more than 1 h after the explosion the fish had returned to a similar swimming area and behavior as right before the explosion. The fish usually swam less than 1.5 m from the water surface except during or right after the explosion. When there was an external stimulus, such as, an explosion the fish swam downwards. The average swimming speeds of the fish before, during and after the explosion were approximately 0.33 m/s, 0.52 m/s and 0.29 m/s, respectively, and the average swimming speed of the fish during the explosion was 1.6 times faster than usual.

Reaction of common carp (Cyprinus carpio, L.) to oxygen deficiency in winter as an example for the suitability of radio telemetry for monitoring the reaction of fish to stress factors in pond aquaculture

“…Beside this other telemetry techniques have been used to evaluate the impact of stressors on common carp. Long baseline acoustic telemetry has been used by Shin, Lee and Shin (2003) to evaluate the effect of dynamite explosions on the behaviour of common carp and physiological telemetry has been used successfully to investigate the response of carp to thermal pollution (Cooke & Schreer 2003).…”

Measuring the swimming behaviour of a reared Pacific bluefin tuna in a submerged aquaculture net cage

“…The two types of biotelemetry generally used to measure the swimming paths of aquatic animals in water are micro data loggers (Wilson et al 1991;Mitani et al 2003;Shiomi et al 2008) and acoustic telemetry (Shin et al 2003;Anras and Lagardère 2004). Compared with micro data loggers, acoustic telemetry provides a limited type and quantity of information, although it does allow the behaviour of tagged fish to be measured remotely.…”